78-92, Foregate Street
78-92, Foregate Street, CH1 1HB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375805
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 78-92, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 78-92, Foregate Street, CH1 1HB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375805
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 78-92, Foregate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78-92, Foregate Street, CH1 1HB
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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:
- 78-92, Foregate Street, CH1 1HB
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 41009 66391
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 June 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 4066
1932-1/6/105
CHESTER CITY (EM)
FOREGATE STREET (South side)
No 78-92
(Formerly listed as Nos.78-94 (Even))
23.07.1998
GV
II
Cooperative department store. 1904-1905. By Douglas and Minshull. For the Chester Cooperative Society. Extended 1914 and converted 1980s to a range of shops. Stone-dressed brick. Baroque in manner.
EXTERIOR: nine bays to Foregate Street; three bays to Love Street, right. The ground floor has Roman Doric bay columns of cream stone, altered shop-fronts and blank fascia. The first floor has broad display windows with stained patterned leaded glazing above transom; the narrower windows have sashes and inserted hoppers; all have stone surrounds. Stone frieze and cornice on corbels. The corner has a segmental-arched three-light window of 7;16;7 panes to each face, above eaves level, beneath a lead-roofed cupola with a small-paned lantern and domed roof with tall finial. Five quasi-Palladian timber 6;6;20;6;6-pane dormers, and a stone-dressed Baroque dormer casement to Foregate Street and to Love Street.
The three left bays to Foregate Street, 1914, are flat-roofed. Two ridge chimneys, one with stone cap.
HISTORICAL NOTE: not in any of John Douglas's normal Vernacular Revival manners, the design shocked the City Council Improvement Committee; the partial leaded glazing was the price paid for their approval.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 25.5.04; 22.6.1914).
Listing NGR: SJ4100966391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469784
- 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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