Diocesan House
DIOCESAN HOUSE, 10, RAYMOND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375918
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Diocesan House
- Statutory Address:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 10, RAYMOND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375918
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Diocesan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 10, RAYMOND 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:
- DIOCESAN HOUSE, 10, RAYMOND 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:
- SJ4007466627
Details
SJ4066
1932-1/6/241
CHESTER CITY (EM),
RAYMOND STREET (North side),
No.10
Diocesan House
(Formerly Listed as: RAYMOND STREET, Harvest House)
10/01/72
II
Ellesmere Canal Company Offices and Canal Tavern, later Tarvin
Rural District Council Offices and Chester Diocesan Offices.
The front office portion probably 1790s; the rear wing
formerly the tavern now part of offices, c1815. Painted stucco
front; English garden wall bond brown brick to sides and rear;
grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Raymond Street; symmetrical, with
pedimented central bay and slightly-recessed wing of one bay
to each side. The ground floor has a round-arched sash of
9-panes plus radial-bar fan in each bay; porch forming
single-storey right wing has 5 stone steps to quarter-landing;
1 step to doorway in Tuscan case in side of main block. A
rusticated round-arched opening to flight of 13 stone steps
down to Tower Wharf forms a left wing. The main block has a
first-floor band; a central 12-pane recessed sash with
architrave, consoles and cornice; a tripartite 4;12;4 pane
sash with architrave to each side-bay, that in west bay
altered. Simple frieze and moulded cornice; central pediment.
The east side is blank; the west side has 16-pane and 12-pane
sashes.
The rear, which was the front of the tavern, is symmetrical.
Door of two rows of 3 flush panels in case with simple
pilasters, frieze and Doric pediment; a recessed 12-pane sash
to each side. Three 12-pane recessed sashes to the first and
second floors. The east side of the former tavern has recessed
sashes irregularly disposed.
INTERIOR: has 6-panel doors, a main dogleg stair parallel with
the front, winders in the apsidal end of the stair-well;
open-string, shaped brackets, stick balusters and swept rail.
The former office and tavern wings are combined; a dogleg
stair formerly serving the tavern, simpler than the main
stair. Some cornices.
Listing NGR: SJ4007466627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469897
- 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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