13, ABBEY STREET
13, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376040
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 13, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 13, ABBEY STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12710/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376040
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 13, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, ABBEY 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:
- 13, ABBEY 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 40627 66551
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NE ABBEY STREET 595-1/2/24 (North side) 28/07/55 No.13 (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY STREET (North side) Nos.13 AND 15)
GV II
Town house. c1720, with later addition and alterations. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storey main block of 2 windows with western 2 storey extension of 2 windows, externally probably late C18, west, described separately. The main block has painted stone plinth, rusticated quoins to south-west corner of first and second storeys, door of 6 fielded panels with pedimented hood on consoles, a flush 12-pane sash west of door and a replaced horned 16-pane sash east of door, painted second-storey floorband, two 16-pane sashes east of door, painted third-storey floorband, 2 square 6-pane sashes and a brick parapet with plain stone coping. The windows have painted stone sills and gauged brick heads. The west wing has a low plinth of painted stone; flush sashes, 2 of 12 panes to the raised first storey and 2 of 6 panes to the second storey. The rear of the main block has flush quoins to north-west corner, a replaced tripartite sash to the first storey, a Gothick tripartite sash to the second storey with 'intersecting tracery' glazing bars to each light; a replaced 9-pane sash to the third storey; parapet gable. The rear of the west wing is irregular; back doorway; a central one-storey outshut and a 2-storey rear wing, east; a 16-pane sash; a rear chimney. INTERIOR: oak cellar door of 2 fielded panels; doors of 4 fielded panels; shutters in embrasures; a good early C18 open-well open-string stair with shaped brackets, 3 turned balusters per step and heavy oak rail with rose.
Listing NGR: SJ4062766551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470026
- 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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