Chester Visitor Centre
CHESTER VISITOR CENTRE, LITTLE ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375861
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Visitor Centre
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER VISITOR CENTRE, LITTLE ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375861
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Visitor Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER VISITOR CENTRE, LITTLE ST JOHN 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:
- CHESTER VISITOR CENTRE, LITTLE ST JOHN 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 40884 66202
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 LITTLE ST JOHN STREET 1932-1/6/186 (North side) Chester Visitor Centre
GV II
St John's School, now Chester Visitor Centre. Founded 1810 by Robert Earl Grosvenor, rebuilt 1882-3 by his grandson ER Robson for the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed hard red brick; hipped red-brown tile roofs. EXTERIOR: expressed as 3 storeys plus attic to front, facing St John's Church (qv), reducing the apparent scale, but 2 storeys plus attic to sides and rear. The front has unpierced end bays, each with a round-arched recessed panel with armorial device of stone, Grosvenor Arms and "W" to left and 3 mitres and 1883, right. The ground floor has 4 round-arched openings holding 2 stone cross-windows between 2 pairs of boarded double doors with dual overlights. Stone stringcourse beneath 4 pairs of 6-pane casements alternating with recessed stone panels; a stone apron below each end-panel holds a square 4-pane light. The second floor has a similar stone window-band, with slightly varied rhythm of casements and panels. 2 stone-dressed shaped attic gables, each with two 6-pane casements. Timber hexagonal belfry on ridge has cupola-roof, louvre band, lead finial, wind-vane. The sides and back are similarly expressed, but with simpler brick openings to tall classroom windows; dormer gables similar to those at front. INTERIOR: the structure is little altered but almost all surfaces are covered in mock timber framing.
Listing NGR: SJ4088466202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469840
- 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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