Numbers 88 and 90 Street
NUMBERS 88 AND 90 STREET, 88 AND 90, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376458
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 88 and 90 Street
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 88 AND 90 STREET, 88 AND 90, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376458
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 88 and 90 Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 88 AND 90 STREET, 88 AND 90, 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:
- NUMBERS 88 AND 90 STREET, 88 AND 90, 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 40223 66216
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/426 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.88 & 90 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.88) (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.90)
GV II
2 town houses, built together, now offices. Probably late C18, altered and converted later C20. Flemish bond brown brick; grey slate roof. 3 storeys plus added dormers to loft. Each former house has a small opening to a cellar, in the painted stone plinth. No.88 has 2 steps to a door, east, of 4 fielded panels with a plain overlight in a recessed porch which has a restored or rebuilt case with a simple pediment on console brackets. Each house had 2 recessed sashes to each storey, with painted stone sills and wedge lintels; the sashes to the first and second storeys are of 12 panes, those to the third storey 6 panes; the doorway to No.90 is replaced by a facsimile sash; the sash boxes are displayed in No.90. The cornice and roof carries through; 2 reverse-pitch slate-cheeked dormers are inserted in the roof of each house; ridge chimneys. The rear wall is rebuilt, with sills and cambered heads of brick to three 12-pane recessed sashes to the first and second storeys and of 6 panes to the third storey. INTERIOR: rebuilt in keeping but without retention of original features. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ4022366216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470459
- 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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