Number 39 Street Coach and Horses Public House

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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/287 (West side) No.39 Street (Coach and Horses Public House)

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Public house. c1872. By Kelly and Edwards of No.7 St Werburgh Street (not included). The lower 2 storeys are of sandstone-dressed English bond brown brickwork, the third storey and gables timber-framed with plaster panels; clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: the east front to Northgate Street has 2 bays, with a central doorway and a blocked former doorway at the corner of Princess Street, 7 spiral-moulded colonnettes of painted wood bearing a moulded cornice at ceiling level on carved consoles; the door has 3 lower panels and leaded glazing in a large upper panel, with an overlight; a renewed 5-light window south of the doorway and a 2-light window to north have hoppers above the transom; the corner doorway now blocked in brick has a single-pane window. The second storey has a window of five 2-pane lights in the south bay and one of 2 lights in the north bay, both having stone mullions and surrounds with recessed chamfers. The third storey is slightly jettied with a dentilled and moulded bressumer, on 2 brackets at the corner; each with a carved female figure-head on its lower face; small framing with curved braces to lower panel at ends of each bay and ornamented panels beneath the 6-light mullioned and transomed canted oriel in the south bay and the 5-light window standing proud of the wall-face in the north bay; a carved female figure on the posts at each end and between the bays. The 2 front gables are jettied, with a dentilled carved bressumer on consoles, small framing with quadrant braces, carved bargeboards and finials; a moulded rainwater head at the north end. The south face to Princess Street has 4 spiral-moulded colonnettes to the first storey, a central door of 6 panels, the upper 3 glazed, in a doorcase with sidelights and overlight; a replaced 3-light window with hoppers above the transom, east, and a 4-light window with a central stone mullion and intermediate wood mullions, west. The treatment of the upper storeys is similar to that facing Northgate Street; the second storey has a mullioned window of four 2-panel lights and the west bay a similar window of 2 lights, with a central casement of 4 panes between; the timber-framed third storey has a 4-light mullioned and transomed window, east, and

one of 6 lights, west; both standing proud of the wall face; the jettied gable above each window has a dentilled and moulded bressumer on consoles, carved bargeboards and finials; carved pendants at the eaves feet of the east gable; 2 rows of 5 panels, with a single-pane window, separate the gables. The rear south gable-end is plastered; the north gable-end is of brick with a broad double sash to the second storey and two 4-pane sashes to the third storey; a fire escape door has been added; the window openings have brick camber-arched heads. 2 shaped brick chimneys. The rear-yard has a former coach house and stable of brick with a grey slate roof. Double boarded door to the street, with a brick-nogged timber-framed gable above; stable-door to yard; hayloft with loading door and breathers; the west wall is rebuilt. INTERIOR: the public rooms are altered and have no visible features of interest. (Chester Archaeological Society Transactions, Old Series: Chester: 1871-1885: 8/1/1872).

Listing NGR: SJ4045066480

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Chester Archaeological Society Transactions 8th Jan, (1872)

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