NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET

NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET, 54 AND 56, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376355
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET, 54 AND 56, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376355
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET, 54 AND 56, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 54 AND 56 STREET, 54 AND 56, 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 40490 66494

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/317 (East side) Nos.54 & 56 Street

GV II

2 town houses, probably with shops, now one shop with storage. Late C17 and early C18, but possibly earlier elements; the upper storeys re-cased 1900. English garden wall bond brown brickwork, sandstone, pebbledash, plaster and pargeting to the third and fourth storeys, green slate roof with 2 gables to the front. EXTERIOR: full cellars and 4 storeys. Shopfronts of c1900 have wood frames, leaded glazing above the transom with the City Arms of Durham, Salisbury, Newcastle, London, Chester, Carlisle and York; the windows have arched heads with art nouveau motifs carved in the spandrels; modern fascias. The second storey, of brick with flush red sandstone quoins, has 2 mullioned and transomed wood windows to the street and one to the south end, with shaped leaded glazing above the transoms; a frieze and cornice at third storey floor level; pilasters at north end and south-west corner; 2 canted oriels to the street and one to the south end rise through the third and fourth storeys; pargeted panels beneath the third storey windows to the street are inscribed ANNO DOM:MDCCCC. the south-facing window has a strapwork panel; there is a continuous pargeted band between the heads of the third storey windows and the fourth storey sills; pargeted gables on jettied collar beams above the oriels; bargeboards with moulded cornices; old brick chimney on south gable and on ridge to north; red clay ridge tiles. INTERIOR: the cellars to both former houses have walls of bedrock and sandstone, with some brickwork, the bases of the chimneys and 3 chamfered oak beams to each cellar, parallel with the street. No features of special interest are exposed to view in the first storey; an inserted stair against the north party wall from the street to the second storey. The front rooms in the second storey of both houses have 2 painted chamfered beams, stopped at their inner ends; the party wall between the former houses is 18 inches thick; all main rooms had corner fireplaces, some now blocked. No.56 has an oak dogleg stair from second to fourth storey with square newels and 2 stout barleysugar balusters per step; a similar stair in No.54 remains only between storeys 3 and 4; there is an oak cupboard with large door panels in a rear room of the second storey, and 2 flush 12-pane sashes to the enclosed rear

light-well, one with thick quadrant-moulded glazing bars of early type. The roof structure appears to date from 1900, but the form of the building was little changed; the architect is mentioned but not named in the City Council Improvement Committee Minutes. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 27/9/1899 & 10/01/1900; Blomfield AW: Miscellaneous Views of Chester - Engraving: Holborn, London: 1875-).

Listing NGR: SJ4048966492

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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.