Parker's Buildings
PARKER'S BUILDINGS, 115, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375809
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Parker's Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- PARKER'S BUILDINGS, 115, FOREGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375809
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Parker's Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARKER'S BUILDINGS, 115, 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:
- PARKER'S BUILDINGS, 115, 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:
- SJ4102766507
Details
SJ4166
1932-1/6/119
CHESTER CITY (EM)
FOREGATE STREET
(North side)
No.115
Parker's Buildings
GV
II
Block of 30 flats. 1889. By John Douglas. For the first Duke
of Westminster, directed by his nephew and Eaton Estate agent
Cecil Parker. Common brick with Ruabon red brick dressings and
blue brick diapering.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-bay symmetrical front; sides 5 flats
long. The front has open stair with basket arch at each
storey; stone panel above entrance inscribed "AN'O D'NI :
PARKER'S BUILDINGS : 1889". Wrought-iron rails to upper
archways; first-floor string; second-floor corbel table of
Ruabon brick; windows have Ruabon brick mullions,
segmental-arched heads, sills and quoins: one of 3 lights to
each storey left of entrance and of one light right of
entrance. The sides have similar open stairs, staggered, those
on east side near the ends, those on west side near the
centre. 8 chimneys on east slope of roof, one on rear gable, 9
on west slope.
INTERIORS: refurbished by SJ Lomas for Northern Counties
Housing Association, 1982.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the exterior, severe and regimented in
contrast to Douglas's normally warmer composition and
detailing, shows the probable influence of Cecil Parker.
Parker consulted the secretary of the Improved Industrial
Dwellings Company and arranged that Douglas should study their
Stalbridge Buildings in London before preparing the design.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 166-7;
258).
Listing NGR: SJ4102766507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 166-7, 258
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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