PARKER'S BUILDINGS

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:: 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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARKER'S BUILDINGS, 115, FOREGATE STREET

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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

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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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 166-7, 258

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.