GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST

GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST, 5, LIVERPOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375869
Date first listed:: 11-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST
Statutory Address:: GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST, 5, LIVERPOOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375869
Date first listed:: 11-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST
Statutory Address 1:: GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST, 5, LIVERPOOL ROAD

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.

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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:: GEORGE AND DRAGON PUBLIC HOUSE AND SIGNPOST, 5, LIVERPOOL ROAD

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 40327 67012

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46NW LIVERPOOL ROAD 1932-1/2/187 (West side) 11/02/92 No.5 George and Dragon Public House and signpost

II

Public house. 1929-31. For the Birkenhead Brewery Co. Sandstone-dressed brown brick, timber frame with plaster panels; red tile roof. Of "Road House" type, designed in the manner of an Elizabethan manor-house, on prominent site between Liverpool Road and Parkgate Road, facing north end of Upper Northgate Street. EXTERIOR: symmetrical front to Upper Northgate Street has apron steps to timber-framed gabled porch on stone dressed brick plinth with framed and boarded Tudor-arched oak double doors and small leaded lights. Canted 8-light mullioned and transomed stone window, leaded glazing, to each side. Timber-framed recessed balcony above porch; 5-light leaded oriel in close-studded bay to each side of balcony; south pitch of roof sweeps down to balcony; the bay to each side has third storey jettied on consoles with 3-light casement, close studding and braced panels, beneath jettied front gable. Ornate bargeboards; drop finials. The east face to Liverpool Street has stone-dressed brick ground floor with, south to north, two 3-light mullioned and transomed leaded casements; brick-nogged timber-framed entrance bay with framed and boarded oak double doors; damaged leaded overlight; coved jetty to projecting bay above; three 3-light mullioned and transomed leaded casements; double doors in stone case with panel inscribed George and Dragon; leaded slit window. First floor has stone jetty with carved corbels; close studding; ornately framed jettied gables to each entrance bay. North face to car park has brick ground floor with stone-capped plinth; 2 framed and boarded doors; a 2-light leaded casement and 4 small leaded windows; a long, narrow one-storey west wing with 3 small windows between 2 framed-and-boarded doors; eaves rafters exposed. The first floor of the main block has stone jetty, close studding, a tall 3-light landing window, a small window and two 2-light casements, all leaded. A pair of gables, each with a 4-light leaded oriel on a console with a saltire panel to each side, jetty and herringbone struts above. The west face to Parkgate Road has close-studded end bay to

1-storey wing, stone steps with wrought-iron rails to cellar, expressed as an undercroft, timber-framed open gallery between the 1-storey north wing and a short 1-storey south wing, on a bearer beam carried by four S-braced posts. The gallery allows access between lounge, south, and bars, north. Stone-dressed brick gabled bay behind gallery; wrought-iron rail to gallery, with shaped oak posts; close-studded upper storey to each side of gabled bay. Mullioned and transomed and mullioned leaded windows. Windows have armorial panels; a rainwater head on north end and three on west face dated 1931. The east and west sides have parallel roofs, each with 2 shaped stone chimneys, symmetrically placed. INTERIOR could not be inspected fully; modern furnishings; but stone fireplaces, main structure and strapwork ceilings probably intact. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: free-standing chamfered timber post and wrought-iron frame for inn sign; the sign formerly on traffic island, south, is removed. Externally an excellent example of a Road House of the late 1920s/early 1930s, well-composed, consistently detailed and intact. The architect is not yet identified.

Listing NGR: SJ4032767012

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.