Telfords Warehouse
TELFORDS WAREHOUSE, RAYMOND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375919
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Telfords Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- TELFORDS WAREHOUSE, RAYMOND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375919
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Telfords Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TELFORDS WAREHOUSE, 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:
- TELFORDS WAREHOUSE, 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:
- SJ 40054 66622
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 RAYMOND STREET 1932-1/6/242 (North side) 10/01/72 Telford's Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: RAYMOND STREET Warehouse adjoining Harvest House)
GV II
Canal warehouse, now restaurant. c1790. By Thomas Telford. For the Chester and Ellesmere Port Canal Company. English garden wall bond brown brick; hipped grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Raymond Street, 3 to Tower Wharf. The face to Raymond Street has replaced windows in unaltered segmental-arched openings with painted stone sills, and recessed sashes in openings with wedge lintels. A full-height loading-bay, now with false doors. The ground floor has replaced window; loading-bay; 2 replaced windows; window in former doorway; a 16-pane sash; three steps in recessed round-arched porch to door with 3-pane overlight. The first floor has a replaced window; part-glazed filling to loading-bay; a replaced window; two squat 8-pane sashes. Simple stone fascia; boldly-projecting boxed eaves in Telford's manner; brick ridge-chimney. The south-west face to the Ellesmere Canal has 2 round-arched openings on stone plinths to the covered loading dock; the boats entered by the opening at the corner of the north-west end; the dock is in the north-west wing of the warehouse. The main block has sandstone rubbing blocks to corner; loading-bay with doorway to each storey converted to a window; a replaced 1-pane window to each side of loading-bay in each storey. The north-west face of the rear wing has boat-way to the covered dock, with a great full-width window inserted above, 1980s; replaced vertical boarding in gable. The face of the main block has a 16-pane sash to the ground floor and first floor and an 8-pane sash to the second floor east of the rear wing, and replaced windows above the rear wing. The north-east side has a pair of doors of 6 flush panels with a 3-pane overlight; a 16-pane sash to each side. The first floor has three 16-pane sashes. The second floor has four 8-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4005466622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469898
- 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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