12, KING STREET
12, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376275
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376275
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 12, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, KING 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:
- 12, KING 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 40372 66593
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW KING STREET 595-1/1/219 (North side) 10/01/72 No.12 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (North side) Nos.10 AND 12)
GV II
Small town house. Probably C17 origin but front now early C19, and comprehensively restored 1970s. Brown brick, Flemish bond to front and painted English garden wall bond to rear; grey slate roof, hipped to front, has ridge at right angles to the street. 3 storeys, one bay. Rendered plinth; 2 covered stone steps to recessed door of 6 fielded panels under a round-arched radial-bar fanlight; fluted half-pilasters to door-frame; a replaced 4-pane recessed horned sash to the first storey; a similar 20-pane sash 5 panes wide to the second storey and a 12-pane unequal sash to the third storey; moulded cornice; west chimney. The rear has a 6-panel door with plain fanlight, a replaced nearly flush horned sash of 16 panes to the first and the second storey and a casement of three 2-pane lights to the third storey; flush verge. INTERIOR: the cellar has stone steps and largely brick walls with some sandstone at low level. The hall has original plaster cornice and a round archway; the open-string stair has shaped brackets, curtail and 2 stick balusters per step. The stair to the third storey has square newels, closed string and stick balusters. An oak beam probably formerly the west wallplate, looks C17. The roof structure is rebuilt.
Listing NGR: SJ4037266593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470269
- 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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