NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE

NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE, 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376354
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE, 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376354
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE, 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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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Statutory Address:: NUMBER 53 AND 55 STREET FOLLIOTT HOUSE, 53 AND 55, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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 40426 66580

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/293 (West side) 10/01/72 Nos.53 & 55 Street (Folliott House) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos.53 AND 55 Ffolliot House)

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Town house, now offices. 1788, altered. For James Folliott. Brick, painted to Northgate Street and south side; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Painted stone plinth; painted stone sills; gauged brick window heads; sashes are recessed. The face to Northgate Street has 2 sashes to each storey, of 12 panes to the first and second storey and 6 panes to the third storey; a moulded parapet cornice. The south face, to a narrow alley, contains the entrances: the first storey has 2 replaced 2-pane sashes, a door of 5 fielded panels with a simple horseshoe-shaped radial-bar fanlight above, a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes, 3 apron steps of stone to a door of 6 fielded panels with a reeded middle stile and a cast-iron radial-bar overlight in a pedimented painted stone doorcase with sidelights, 2 small replaced casements and a sash opening blocked in brick; the second storey has a replaced 2-pane sash, a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes and a 12-pane sash; the third storey has three 6-pane sashes; there is a Georgian rainwater head and old down-pipe. The rear has two 12-pane sashes to each of the lower 2 storeys and 2 smaller 20-pane cross windows in reduced openings to the third storey; a flush gable. INTERIOR: deep full-length cellars include a substantial cast-iron range, probably late C19, "The Heald" model, and a wine cellar with bins. The first storey rear room is sub-divided but retains sub-panels and shutters to windows, some panelling below partly-removed dado-rail, a painted wood fireplace with fluted pilasters and a Liver-bird with swags and a plaster ceiling cornice; east of the entrance hall a broad archway of timber with panelled jambs is partly covered; the middle room has sub-panels and shutters to the triple sash; the front room is divided, with false ceilings and detail covered. The substantial open-well stair has open strings with brackets, turned vase newels, 2 turned balusters per step and curved landings against the south wall; a full-height corner-post, in

keeping, is late 1980s. In the second storey the rear room has panelling to the dado rail, shutters to sashes, a plain white marble fireplace and a plaster cornice; the middle room has sub-panels to the triple sash, a simple wood fire surround, a simple plaster cornice and, now blocked but visible from the inserted lavatories adjoining, double 3-panel doors; the front room has sub-panels and shutters to windows, a replaced fireplace and a simple plaster cornice. The third storey rear room has double 2-panel cupboard doors. Surfaces, where visible, are softwood. The house is narrow and deep. The principal room of each storey is to the rear, overlooking a now lost garden. A blocked 6-panel door in the east wall of the second storey rear room suggests that the stair has been reversed; most doors have been replaced.

Listing NGR: SJ4042666580

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Legacy System number:: 470349
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.