70, FOREGATE STREET
70, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375801
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 70, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 70, FOREGATE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14324/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375801
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 70, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 70, FOREGATE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 70, FOREGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40947 66386
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/104 (South side) 28/07/55 No.70
GV II
Small town house, now shop. Probably mid C17, altered. Timber frame with plaster panels; later brick wing to rear; roof of small grey slates. Cellar and 2 storeys of one bay; arcade with stop-chamfered end posts and a round-cornered central post on sandstone bases. Shopfront probably early C20 has cellar vents beneath a row of small framing; recessed porch, right, with canted sides and shop window with leaded glazing above transom; dentil cornice. Joists exposed over arcade. The first floor has rectangular flush bressumer and 7-light mullioned and transomed casement proud of wallface on brackets, with 3 shaped panels beneath and 2 panels to each side. Small-framed jettied front gable, shortened finial and replaced bargeboards. The sides of the first floor above the arcade have 3 panels beneath a leaded casement. The second bay, exposed right, is brick and render. The 3-storey third bay has projecting central chimney on gable to front. INTERIOR: Jacobean cross-beam. Stone steps to cellar. Doorway to room behind shop in late C17-early C18 manner, apparently altered and partly remade, has fluted pilasters and frieze on consoles. Surfaces in cellar and rear room are covered.
Listing NGR: SJ4094766386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469780
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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