NUMBER 96 STREET

NUMBER 96 STREET, 96, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376462
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 96 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 96 STREET, 96, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW

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Date:: 2001-08-26
Reference:: IOE01/03259/28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376462
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 96 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 96 STREET, 96, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW

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:: NUMBER 96 STREET, 96, 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 40175 66207

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/429 (North side) 28/07/55 No.96 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.96)

GV II

Town house, now office. c1780. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Painted stone plinth, raised over a replaced 1-pane cellar window; recessed porch, east, in case with pilasters of Ionic derivation and pediment has 4 stone steps to door of one horizontal panel above 4 fielded panels, and overlight with Victorian stained glass; 2 recessed sashes to first storey and 3 to each upper storey have glazing bars removed; painted stone sills and wedge lintels; cornice; 2 west gable chimneys. The rear has a long irregular 2-storey extension, east; the west portion of the main block projects slightly with a bowed face to the rear, a tripartite sash of 5;15;5 panes to the first storey, a replaced 2-pane sash to each upper storey and, above the junction with the rear wing, a replaced fixed light to the upper landing. INTERIOR: the front room of the first storey has architraves to door and windows with roses at top corners; door of 5 fielded panels; archway to stairwell. The rear room in main block has door of 5 fielded panels, a fireplace with short Doric pilasters, a bowed rear wall and a cornice; the open-string stair has a curtail step, stick balusters and a swept handrail with wreath at base; the second storey front room has panels beneath window and in embrasure; cornice. The rear room in the main block has a bowed rear wall with panelled embrasure to sash; doors of 5 fielded panels; the stair continues to the third storey which has doors of 4 fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SJ4017566207

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Legacy System number:: 470463
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.