122, FOREGATE STREET
122, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375812
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 122, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 122, FOREGATE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07253/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375812
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 122, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 122, 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:
- 122, 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 41103 66435
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/108 (South side) 10/01/72 No.122 (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET No.122 Lombard Bank)
GV II
Office, now shop. 1902. By John Douglas. For Prudential Assurance Ltd. Tooled squared snecked red sandstone rubble; red clay tile roof. In Douglas's Germanic C17 manner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus loft in roof; corner entrance with faces of similar length to Foregate Street and Bath Street. Angled porch with 4-panel double doors in basket archway on panelled pilasters; doors have leaded glazing in upper panels; oak inner double doors have glazed upper panels above 4 small lower panels; octagonal shaft at each corner of porch carries first floor on consoles; keystone to porch arch; a miniature leaded light to each side of archway. To Foregate Street a round-arched window with a basket-arched window to each side, with pilasters and moulded voussoirs; to Bath Street 2 basket-arched windows, an 8-panelled door in round-arched opening and a pair of 1-pane; 6-pane recessed sashes; a balustrade-capped stone screen links with No.1 Bath Street (qv). The first floor has a stone-mullioned tripartite sash with 1 pane to lower leafs, 6 panes to upper leafs to the angled front above the porch; a similar 1-light sash in each side of the bay; 8 similar sashes to Foregate Street in a 2;3;3 rhythm and 9 in a 3;2;2;2 rhythm to Bath Street; continuous moulded sillband, frieze and cornice; Chester City coat of arms above porch-bay windows; eaves cornice. A Baroque shaped gable with pair of leaded lights, volutes and obelisk finial above the porch-bay; similar but larger gable above outer bay in Foregate Street has pair of 1;6 pane sashes in pedimented case; cast brackets to rainwater pipe with lead head dated 1902. The face to Bath Street has a similar rainwater pipe and head; cartouche above outer pair of sashes; gable over outer bay with round-headed loops, coping and short finial. The roof to each street has a lead-clad lucarne with finial to hipped roof. 2 red-brick chimneys. The south end is of stone-banded brown brick with a small-pane mullioned and transomed casement under segmental-arched head
with stone key. INTERIOR not inspected. (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 24.9.1902).
Listing NGR: SJ4110366435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469791
- 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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