Grosvenor Hotel
GROSVENOR HOTEL, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376248
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376248
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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:
- GROSVENOR HOTEL, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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 40698 66306
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/186 (South side) 10/01/72 Grosvenor Hotel (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Grosvenor Hotel)
GV II
Hotel. 1863-6. Begun by TM Penson and completed by RK Penson and Ritchie for the second Marquis of Westminster. Stone-dressed brown Flemish bond brick and timber framing with plaster panels; steep grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of 7 window-bays plus basement and attics, heavily expressed in quasi Vernacular Revival manner. The first storey has a 9-bay colonnade, perhaps of C13 derivation; the painted cylindrical columns have stone plinths and capitals; stone abutment west and bay with a pair of cross-windows, east. The upper storeys are almost symmetrical with a central bay between gabled projecting bays flanked by 2 windows; a tourelle at each corner. The windows to the second and third storeys are mullioned and transomed, stone-dressed to the second storey and to the projecting bays of the third storey and to the corbelled tourelles. The other parts of the third storey and all the fourth storey are expressed as timber framing, probably applied. The tourelles have third and fourth storey oriels. The fourth storey has a quadruple sash in the central bay, paired triple sashes expressed as mullioned and transomed windows in the projecting bays and triple, dual and single sashes elsewhere. Paired dual sashes in front gables; a gabled roof; dormer triple sash between and to each side of the front gables. The gables have idiosyncratic bracing and ornate bargeboards; the tourelles have spires. Stone-banded brick chimneys. The west side to the Grosvenor-Laing Precinct, formerly Newgate Street, is similarly composed and detailed to the front, but shorter and without the colonnade. A canted panel of stone at the corner bears the Grosvenor Arms, the hotel name and the Grosvenor sheaf. INTERIOR: is well appointed, but with no individual features of special interest.
Listing NGR: SJ4069866306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470242
- 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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