St Oswalds Chambers
ST OSWALDS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 22, ST WERBURGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376392
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswalds Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALDS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 22, ST WERBURGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376392
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswalds Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OSWALDS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 22, 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 OSWALDS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 22, 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:
- SJ4063766405
Details
SJ4066SE
595-1/4/353
23/05/67
CHESTER CITY (IM)
ST WERBURGH STREET
(East side)
Nos.20 AND 22
St Oswalds Chambers
II
GV
Offices, now opticians. 1898. By John Douglas as architect and
probably developer. Squared snecked red sandstone rubble,
timber frame with plaster panels and red Ruabon brick; hipped
Westmorland green slate roof; the building is almost detached.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, double-fronted, asymmetric. The front has
a shaped 9-panel door now glazed in a basket archway with
colonnettes, 18;98 in spandrels and SAINT OSWALD CHAMBERS
above; a 4-light leaded ovolo-mullioned casement north and a
shop window south with leaded glazing in stallriser. The
timber-framed second storey has a 4-light mullioned and
transomed leaded casement, north, the upper lights with
patterned leading, under a carved lintel; a similar window of
3 lights above the doorway; a casement of 3;3;3 lights around
the south-west corner, above small-framing with cusped-arch
heads; dormer gables with richly carved bargeboards over the
north and central casements; a short octagonal spire over the
south-west window has a weathervane on the lead finial. The
north side has a 3-light mullioned and leaded casement and
three 4-light mullioned and transomed casements to the first
storey and a similar series, with leading removed, to the
second storey. The south side has a 2-light casement plus a
1-light casement at the canted south-east corner; the second
storey has a casement with leading removed. The rear wing, of
brick to the lower storey and framed above, has 2 casements to
each storey with some leaded glazing. 3 shaped brick chimneys.
INTERIOR: has some alterations and covered surfaces, but
retains features including doors.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 192).
Listing NGR: SJ 40637 66405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 192
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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