3, UPPER NORTHGATE STREET
3, UPPER NORTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375960
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 3, UPPER NORTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, UPPER NORTHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375960
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 3, UPPER NORTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, UPPER NORTHGATE 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:
- 3, UPPER NORTHGATE 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 40388 66735
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 UPPER NORTHGATE STREET 1932-1/6/277 (West side) No.3
GV II
Town house. Dated 1886. By TM Lockwood. Red brick dressed with terracotta and stone; Westmorland green slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic, asymmetric in Free Style, double-fronted to Upper Northgate Street, massed to exploit a prominent street corner. Brick plinth; 5-panel door in case with brick pilasters, stone imposts and scrolled pediment on consoles containing a 1-pane fanlight in round brick arch. Informally disposed fenestration in round-arched and segmental-arched openings articulated with stringcourses and pilasters: a ground-floor window to each side of door; a first-floor round-arched window toward corner; paired segmental arched windows to first floor and second floor under a pair of small gables above and north of entrance bay. Pair of rainwater heads inscribed TN and 1886. The south front to Canal Street has a secondary door of 6 fielded panels. A broad gable adjoining the corner has large canted oriel of moulded brick, stone and terracotta to first-floor drawing room; windows to first and second landings. Gable has carved stone panel dated 1886, rich carving in apex and brick dentil cornice to verges. The rear gable to the main roof has a pair of round-arched narrow windows above the hipped roof of a lower rear wing. INTERIOR not inspected. (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 6.1.1886).
Listing NGR: SJ4038866735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469939
- 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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