Number 73 Street Former Fire Station
NUMBER 73 STREET FORMER FIRE STATION, 73, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376360
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Number 73 Street Former Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 73 STREET FORMER FIRE STATION, 73, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376360
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 73 Street Former Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 73 STREET FORMER FIRE STATION, 73, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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:
- NUMBER 73 STREET FORMER FIRE STATION, 73, 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 40411 66634
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/299 (West side) 10/01/72 No.73 Street (Former Fire Station) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET No.73 Fire Station)
GV II
Former fire station, now shop. 1911, altered. By James Strong. For Chester City Council. Stone-dressed brick; timber frame with plaster panels; clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The lower storey has 3 fire-engine garage bays, now a shop entrance and 2 showroom windows, with yellow sandstone ashlar corner piers, 2 intermediate stanchions expressed as panelled oak posts, a panelled fascia above each bay; long consoles on faces of piers and posts carry the jetty-beam to the timber-framed second storey. 3 half-round oriel windows with richly-carved skirts, carried on fan-vaults with oak ribs and plaster panels; each oriel has 4 moulded mullions and 2 moulded transoms; the central oriel has sidelights of 2 lights; all have shaped leaded glazing. Beneath the windows is a row of rectangular panels; 2 rows of 2 ornate panels between and to sides of windows. 3 small front gables are boldly jettied above a row of shaped panels; ornately panelled lozenge-braced trusses; a shaped red brick chimney at the south end; a large late C20 office block abuts the rear of the building. INTERIOR is covered in shopfitters' materials with no features of interest visible. There is no cellar. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB 1910).
Listing NGR: SJ4041166634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470355
- 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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