21, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376283
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 21, KING STREET
Statutory Address:: 21, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376283
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 21, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21, KING STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 21, 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 40322 66573

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW KING STREET 595-1/1/210 (South side) 10/01/72 No.21

GV II

Town house. Early C18; front refurbished c1800; restored for John Broom 1969-72 with some internal alterations. Brown brick, in Flemish bond to front; grey slate roof has ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: cellar and 3 storeys; double-fronted, symmetrical. Rendered stone plinth has cellar vents; door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels in panelled doorcase with pilasters having incised front panels and an entablature; windows are tripartite flush sashes of 4;12;4 panes with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads with keystones, 2 to the first storey, 3 to the second storey which has a floor-band and 2 to the third storey; moulded cornice beneath rendered parapet; parapet gables with 2 rendered chimneys on each. The rear has a lean-to roofed outshut of 2 storeys with a round-arched small-paned window to the first storey and a pair of 2-pane sashes under a cambered head to the second storey; east of the outshut a flush 12-pane sash to the first and second storey and a 16-pane window to the third storey; west of the outshut an inserted 2-pane window beneath a nearly flush stair window of 40 panes, the outer panes being narrower, an 8-pane radial-bar fan in the round brick arch; west of the stair a tripartite casement of 10;10;10 panes to the first storey, a 12-pane flush sash to the second storey and a 16-pane metal casement to the third storey. A one-storey rear wing, east, has no visible features of interest. INTERIOR: the cellars have front wall and base of back, east and spine walls of rubble sandstone, partly coursed, and other walling of brick, indication of a former direct access from the street, 2 brick barrel vaults; sandstone steps. The hall has HL hinges to the front door; the inner door removed from opening with radial-bar fanlight. The east front room has door of 6 fielded panels, a probably early C19 marble fireplace, sub-panels and panelled shutters to windows, almost full-width inserted opening to west back room, cornice; the back room has door of 6 fielded panels, sub-panels and panelled shutters to window, cornice and 2 facing cupboards, that to east having lower cupboard with double doors of one fielded panel surmounted by round-arched alcove with fluted pilasters and shelves; that to west has lower cupboard removed. The west

front room has a probably rebuilt rear wall, sub-panels and panelled shutters to window, frieze rail and cornice and a probably replaced door of 6 fielded panels to the back room now the kitchen, which has a door of 6 fielded panels from the hall and a chamfered softwood cross-beam. The good open-well open-string stair has carved foliate brackets, curtail, turned newels, 3 plinthed turned balusters per step, swept softwood rail and swept dado on pilasters. The east front room, with some carefully executed alterations, 1969-72, has door from landing and, repositioned, door from west front room of 6-fielded panels in cases with good entablatures having consoles, flutes and urns in relief; skirtings, panelled embrasures, plaster wall-panels, some modified, inserted opening to east rear room with Ionic pilasters and modillion cornice. The west front and rear rooms are relined. The stair to the third storey is largely detailed as that to the second storey, but for the rebuilt third flight which has shaped brackets and stick balusters; doors of 4 fielded panels on HL hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ4032266573

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.