20, KING STREET
20, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, KING STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-03-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12710/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 40350 66592
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW KING STREET 595-1/1/223 (North side) 10/01/72 No.20
GV II
Town house. Probably c1830. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front; grey slate roof has ridge parallel with the street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, double fronted. Rendered plinth has recessed bootscraper; 2 steps to door, just west of centre, of 5 fielded panels with radial bar fanlight in round-arched doorcase with pilasters and open pediment; 4 windows per storey, all with painted stone sills and wedge lintels with cambered soffits and false keystones of 3 voussoirs; the recessed horned sashes, of 12 panes to first and second storeys and 6 panes to the third storey have exposed sash-boxes; round-arched passage doorway, east, has boarded door and plain fanlight; parapet frieze with fretted pattern and modillion cornice; gable chimneys. The rear, expressed as 2 houses, is rendered with features replaced; the east part has a 2-storey outshut with lean-to roof and further extension comprising a second-storey conservatory on braced posts. The third storey above the outshut has 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, flush verge and a west ridge chimney. The west part has a 6-panel door with a triangular overlight and a nearly flush 16-pane sash to the first storey, an altered tall, thin, small-pane stair window, a 12-pane recessed sash to the second storey, a casement of two 2-pane lights with arched 2-pane fan above to the third storey. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4035066592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470276
- 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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