The Watergate
THE WATERGATE, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376468
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Watergate
- Statutory Address:
- THE WATERGATE, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376468
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Watergate
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WATERGATE, 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:
- THE WATERGATE, 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 40137 66184
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/404 The Watergate 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: The Watergate)
GV I
Archway through City Wall on site of medieval gate. 1788-90. By Joseph Turner. For Chester City Council who had bought the sergeantry of the gate from the Earl of Derby in 1778. Red sandstone ashlar. The basket arch has a ring of short rusticated voussoirs; the wings are rusticated below simple, slightly projecting imposts; turned stone balusters to parapets of the wall walk, with pedimented central panel, an intermediate panel to each side and a parapet above each wing finished with a panelled abutment. A postern south of the main arch has a brick barrel vault. The drinking fountain, now dry, fixed to the north abutment is dated 1857. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 97-98; Clerk to Chester City Corporation Assembly: Assembly Book: 1788-1790: AB5 F.F.11 & 22).
Listing NGR: SJ4013766184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 97-98
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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