St Werburgh Mount
ST WERBURGH MOUNT, 19-27, ST WERBURGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376391
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- St Werburgh Mount
- Statutory Address:
- ST WERBURGH MOUNT, 19-27, ST WERBURGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376391
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Werburgh Mount
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST WERBURGH MOUNT, 19-27, ST WERBURGH STREET
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:
- ST WERBURGH MOUNT, 19-27, ST WERBURGH 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 40607 66385
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET 595-1/4/349 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.19-27 (Odd) St Werburgh Mount (Formerly Listed as: ST WERBURGH STREET No.19) (Formerly Listed as: ST WERBURGH STREET Nos.21 AND 23) (Formerly Listed as: ST WERBURGH STREET Nos.25 AND 27)
GV II
Row of 5 shops and upper storey premises. 1874. By John Douglas. For George Hodgkinson, with Nos 15 & 17 St Werburgh Street (qv). Timber-framed with herringbone brick nogging; some plaster panels; brown tile roofs. EXTERIOR: No.19 is 3 storeys, the other properties 2 storeys. A colonnade carries the projecting upper storeys on 7 timber posts with sandstone plinths. The shopfronts divided by brick piers have timber-framed brick-nogged stallrisers; No.19 has a 9-panel door with reeded muntins and rails; Nos 25 & 27 have similar doors of 6 panels, now glazed; Nos 21 & 23 have replaced doors; No.19 has a 3-pane window, the other shops 1-pane windows; leaded glazing above the transoms of all shop windows. The colonnade has a timber bressumer with quadrant braces; the ceiling has exposed beams and joists. The upper storeys of No.19 project under a front gable, with a narrow 2-cross-rail plaster panel to the side, containing an oriel through both storeys on a coved apron with moulded coved brackets, having casement of 6 lights with 2 transoms to the second storey and one transom to the third storey; 4 panels of floral pargeting between lower and upper casements; coved jetty; gable with quadrant and herringbone braces and plaster panels; panelled bargeboards; terracotta finial. Nos 21 & 23 have brick-nogged small framing, each with a mullioned and transomed 3;3; light casement with leaded glazing above the transom, beneath a cove-jettied gable with a hipped tile apron beneath flowers-and-foliage pargeting. Nos 25 & 27 each has a 3;3 light mullioned oriel with leaded glazing above the transom, plaster-panelled coved apron and side-panels; a cove-jettied gable above each window has quadrant and herringbone braces, panelled bargeboards and terracotta
finial. 3 shaped brick chimneys. INTERIORS: most features in the shops are covered. Upper storeys not inspected. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 23/4 & 12/11/1873).
Listing NGR: SJ4061666386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470386
- 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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