SHIPGATE HOUSE

SHIPGATE HOUSE, 2, SHIPGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376399
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: SHIPGATE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHIPGATE HOUSE, 2, SHIPGATE STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/06877/31
Rights:: © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376399
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: SHIPGATE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHIPGATE HOUSE, 2, SHIPGATE 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:: SHIPGATE HOUSE, 2, SHIPGATE STREET

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ4062265866

Details

SJ4065NE 595-1/6/242 28/07/55

CHESTER CITY (IM) SHIPGATE STREET (North West side) No.2 Shipgate House

II*

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Town house, now offices. Some internal features probably late C17 but facade rebuilt mid C18. Stone-dressed irregular Flemish bond red-brown brick with hipped grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; double-fronted. The brick plinth with flush quoins and moulded stone cap has 3 steps down to door of 3 fielded panels and a small-pane cross-window left of main entrance; external L-shaped stone stair of 5 and 4 steps on brick support to door of 6 fielded panels with fanlight of shaped panes in case with fluted pilasters and pedimented hood on modillion brackets; 2 flush 12-pane sashes; the second storey has a stone floor-band and 3 flush sashes of 12 square panes; the third storey has a stone floor-band and 3 flush pane sashes; the windows have stone sills and gauged brick heads with keystones; a stone cornice beam, on modillions; boldly-projecting boxed eaves with a moulded cornice, returning to the south-west side. The rear is altered. INTERIOR: the basement has probably C17 external walls of coursed sandstone and 6 chamfered oak cross-beams; the second bay has a former inglenook pierced to provide a doorway with an oak bressumer to No.4 Shipgate Street (qv). The first storey has a simple passage, a round arch on fluted antae to stair-hall which has a refaced basket-arch under landing; 6-panel door to west front room. Open-well closed-string oak stair has square newels, 2 barleysugar balusters per step, straight rails of moulded rectangular section and panelled dado with panelled pilasters. The second storey landing has oak beams; the front room has oak shutters in embrasures, fluted frieze and moulded cornice. The open-well stair continues to third storey and attic. The third storey has 3 oak beams parallel with the front and 2 angled beams beneath the hips. The attic has angled struts, principal rafters, purlins and rafters of oak. The II* grading is for the facade and stair.

Listing NGR: SJ 40622 65866

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Legacy System number:: 470395
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.