Number 78 Street
1, LINEN HALL PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376452
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Number 78 Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1, LINEN HALL PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376452
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 78 Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, LINEN HALL PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBER 78 STREET, 78, WATERGATE 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:
- 1, LINEN HALL PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 78 STREET, 78, WATERGATE 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 40258 66224
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/421 (North side) 28/07/55 No.78 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.78)
GV II
Includes: No.1 LINEN HALL PLACE. Town house, unoccupied when inspected. Probably mid C18. Flemish bond yellow-brown brick; grey slate roof, hipped to street corner. 3 storeys. The front to Watergate Street has a red sandstone plinth, 2 tripartite sashes of 4;12;4 panes with painted stone sills and cambered arches of reddish gauged brick to first and second storeys; casements inserted in third storey window openings; modillion stone cornice; chimney at each end; the entrance is to Linenhall Street, with door of 4 bolection-moulded panels with 3-pane overlight in a simple pedimented doorcase. 2 small-pane street windows in wood sub-frames are in inserted chamber-arched openings right of door; 2 street-framed casements in original camber-arched sash openings in second storey; a 12-pane flush sash and a sash altered to 6 panes with painted sills and timber lintels in third storey; an eaves facia-board. The rear gable-end is cement rendered, with a replaced door and a replaced metal casement to each storey. INTERIOR: access not possible.
Listing NGR: SJ4025866224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470453
- 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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