4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376326
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address:: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376326
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS 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:: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS 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 40280 66183

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW NICHOLAS STREET 595-1/3/266 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.4, 6 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: NICHOLAS STREET (West side) Nos 4-12 (even), No 14 & Nos 16-28 (even))

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3 town houses, now shop and offices. c1781. By Joseph Turner of Chester (plaque on No.8). Brown brick in Flemish bond to front with roof of grey slate, some old. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each house of 2 bays. No.4 has an inserted recessed small-pane shopfront with square piers, frieze and moulded cornice probably of artificial stone; Nos 6 & 8 each have a recessed 5-panel door with a square 6-pane overlight in a tall case with frieze and cornice on panelled pilasters and a replaced tripartite recessed sash with painted stone sill; all windows have plastered wedge lintels, probably facing to gauged brick heads, with cambered soffits; second storey sillband; No.4 has 2 recessed 12-pane horned sashes; Nos 6 & 8 each have a 12-pane horned sash; Nos 6 & 8 each have a 12-pane sash and a 2;4;2 pane tripartite sash, all recessed and replaced; third storey sillband; six 9-pane recessed sashes; a lead rainwater head and pipe between Nos 4 & 6; moulded cornice and low parapet of painted stone; 2 brick chimneys at south end of each house. The houses are less tall than Nos 10-26 (even) Northgate Street (qv), with which they form a terrace. The north gable-end of No.4, rebuilt when No.2 was demolished, has a plain cap. The rear, with tunnel-backs to Nos 6 & 8, is altered, but with some 16-pane sashes. INTERIORS: No.4 has doors of 5 fielded panels in cases with panelled architraves, a shuttered embrasure and a ceiling cornice in the first storey, a 4-flight open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, a pattern of intertwined serpentine rods between the 2 balusters to each step and swept rail; simple early to mid C19 fireplaces. No.6 has a first storey cornice, a 4-flight open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, slender plinthed and tapered newels, 3 stick balusters per step and swept rail. The second storey front room has cornice with festoon frieze, doors of 5 fielded panels and probably early C19 wooden fire surrounds, painted. No.8 could not be inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4028066183

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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.