FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH

FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH, ABBEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376034
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH
Statutory Address:: FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH, ABBEY SQUARE

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Date:: 2005-04-10
Reference:: IOE01/12711/13
Rights:: © Mr Peter Sargeant. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376034
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH
Statutory Address 1:: FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH, ABBEY SQUARE

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:: FRONT GARDEN WALL TO BISHOPS HOUSE INCLUDING GATE PIERS AND ARCH, ABBEY SQUARE

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 40556 66539

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NE ABBEY SQUARE 595-1/2/21 Front garden wall to Bishop's House 10/01/72 including gate piers and arch

GV II

Front garden wall and gate piers to Bishop's House (qv). C18 with probably earlier plinth, altered. Sandstone and Flemish bond brown brick to Abbey Square and English garden wall bond brickwork, partly renewed, to Abbey Street. Plinth of coursed sandstone; square gate piers to Abbey Square have plain plinths and fluted capstones with cornices crowned with pyramidal tops with stone balls. A wrought-iron pedestrian gate in stone Gothick gateway with trefoil-headed panels in the posts and a cusped ogee carved in the lintel under a coved stone hood to Abbey Street. The wall coping in stone; a stepped gable to a shed in the garden at corner of Abbey Square; the plinth east of the gateway to Abbey Street is re-faced.

Listing NGR: SJ4055166538

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Legacy System number:: 470020
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.