Ye Olde Edgar
YE OLDE EDGAR, 86 AND 88, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376316
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Edgar
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE EDGAR, 86 AND 88, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376316
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Edgar
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE EDGAR, 86 AND 88, LOWER BRIDGE 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:
- YE OLDE EDGAR, 86 AND 88, LOWER BRIDGE 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 40637 65854
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/6/243 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.86 AND 88 Ye Olde Edgar
GV II
Inn, now 2 houses. Probably late C16, restored and altered. Timber frame partly replaced in brick; plaster panels; grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys of 2 deep bays. The first storey is largely painted brick, but with brackets north and south and a repaired heavy gently-curving north-east corner bracket formerly rising from pavement to jetty. Replaced mullioned and transomed casements, proud of the wall on brackets, one of 3 lights, one of 2 lights and one of 3 lights, and a repositioned doorway with part-glazed door, south, to Lower Bridge Street. The jetty-bressumer to each front carries round-ended joists with sole-plate above. The second storey has lightish close-studding to Lower Bridge Street and to Shipgate street, north, with no intermediate rail; 2 mullioned 5-light casements on brackets have leaded glazing; 2 timber-framed blank gables; that to No.88 suggests there was formerly a narrow gap between the 2 houses; a tall brick chimney set back, just north of the valley, and a chimney further back. The front to Shipgate Street has a bracket to the jetty, a 1-light window, a part-glazed door and a 3-light mullioned and transomed casement to the first storey; a 2-light leaded mullioned and transomed casement to each main bay of the second storey and one to the pebbledashed rear bay; the attic storey has a 4-light mullioned leaded casement in each of the 2 timber-framed gabled dormers. The rear is clad in brick, C19 or C20. INTERIOR could not be inspected. Plans show cellars under No.88.
Listing NGR: SJ4063765854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470311
- 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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