7, GROSVENOR STREET
7, GROSVENOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376256
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 7, GROSVENOR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7, GROSVENOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376256
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 7, GROSVENOR STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, GROSVENOR 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:
- 7, GROSVENOR 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 40538 66053
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE GROSVENOR STREET 595-1/4/195 (South East side) No.7 WRVS Office
GV II
Home and centre for midwives, then nurses' home, now WRVS office. 1898. By Douglas and Minshull at the expense of the 1st Duke of Westminster for the Chester Benevolent Institution which provided free midwifery services for the poor. Diapered stone-dressed Ruabon red brick; Westmorland green slate roof. Vernacular Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys; 4 bays. Flush ashlar sandstone plinth; 2 stone steps in canted recessed porch to panelled door with 2 small leaded lights, on wrought-iron hinges, in stone basket arch; larger basket arch to front of porch surmounted by carved stone panel inscribed W:1898, indicating that the building was at the expense of the first Duke of Westminster. Volutes to sides of panel. The mullioned and transomed windows are leaded, under basket-arched heads. The first storey has one 4-light casement west of door and 2 of 3 lights to east. Moulded second storey floor string, flush sillband and lintel band; a 3-light casement, west, one of 2 lights over doorway, then 2 of 3 lights and one of 2 lights. The 3-storey portion, east of doorway, has two 3-light casements and one of 2 lights; 2 dormer gables. 2 shaped ridge chimneys. The east side has miscellaneous small-pane timber casements and a jettied canted bay of brick through the second and third storeys. A one-storey outshut, west. INTERIOR: has some original fireplaces and doors with reeded stiles, rails and muntins. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 120; Hubbard E: John Douglas: 1991-).
Listing NGR: SJ4053866053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013)
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 120
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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