117, FOREGATE STREET
117, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375811
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 117, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 117, FOREGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375811
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 117, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 117, 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:
- 117, 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 41048 66454
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/120 (North side) No.117
GV II
Shop and accommodation. 1889. By John Douglas. For the first Duke of Westminster. Converted and attached to adjoining new offices 1990 by Stananought. Ruabon red brick with stone dressings and blue brick diapering; red clay tile roof. With No.113 Foregate Street (qv), expressed as a lodge to Parker's Buildings Foregate Street (qv). The front to ground floor refaced 1990; flush sandstone bands to upper storeys; attached stone shaft to each side of central windows; the first floor has a 3-light mullioned and transomed casement with a 1-light transomed casement to each side. The second floor has a 3-light casement. Shaped front gable with moulded cornice and finial. The left side to the forecourt of No.115, Parker's Buildings, has sandstone quoins, stone-mullioned and transomed windows, 2 projecting shaped gables and 2 chimneys with detached circular spiral-moulded flues of shaped Ruabon bricks. Near the rear corner a 9-panel door on strap hinges in case dated 1889. Rear gable with projecting chimney. The right side is built against. INTERIOR not inspected. (Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 167, 258, 259).
Listing NGR: SJ4104866454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 167, 258-9
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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