ST OSWALDS CHAMBERS

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:: ST OSWALDS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 22, ST WERBURGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 470387
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 192

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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.