Number 9 And Attached Walls

Number 9 is a townhouse, now offices, built between 1754 and 1760 for Thomas Prescott, who held a 40-year lease from the Dean and Chapter of Chester Cathedral. The building is constructed of Flemish bond orange brick with a grey slate roof.

The exterior is double-fronted with three storeys and a cellar. It features a painted stone plinth and rusticated quoins. A stone boot-scraper leads to a door of six fielded panels, topped with an overlight featuring radial and looped elliptical bars within a painted stone case. This case is embellished with fluted Ionic pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a modillion cornice culminating in a pediment. Recessed 12-pane sashes flank the door, with five similar sashes on the second storey and five 6-pane sashes in square openings on the third. All windows have painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels, each adorned with an ornate false keystone. A painted stone cornice sits below a brick parapet featuring panelled end blocks and a plain stone coping. There are no external rainwater pipes, and two ridge chimneys are present, with the western chimney shared. A rear wing extends to the west and east, with differing heights of two and one storeys respectively. Rear window openings have been altered, with two flush 12-pane sashes visible on the third storey.

The interior hall features a black and white tiled floor, a dado rail, cornice, architraves to the front door, and panelled pilasters to a basket archway leading to the stair hall. The cellars have sandstone front and back walls and a brick barrel vault; a broad-board cellar door is also present. The first storey contains doors of six fielded panels. A west-facing front room has architraves to embrasures and a two-panel door to a cupboard. The east-facing front room boasts panelled embrasures, a frieze, and a cornice. The stair hall includes a basket archway to the rear, supported by panelled pilasters. The open-well staircase has carved brackets, a curtail step with a rose design, three spiral-mould column-on-vase balusters per step, a swept moulded rail, a dado of broad boards rising with the staircase, and a moulded rail with bolection panels above. A lantern tops the staircase. The second-storey landing has basket arches to the west and rear, bolection panels, and six-panel doors. The west-facing front room showcases architraves and consoles to a blocked archway, carved spandrels, a key, architraves to shuttered embrasures, a frieze, cornice, and a ceiling rose. The east-facing front room has panelled embrasures, a blocked chimney breast, and a cornice. A secondary staircase, with covered surfaces on the first and second storeys and three closed-string flights to the third storey, includes steps covered with three column-on-vase balusters per step, turned newels, and straight rails. The third storey is relatively plain in its detailing.

The rear garden contains terrace walls constructed of brick and stone. The rear wall to the garden possesses a probable pre-18th century stone plinth, a Gothick ogee-arched opening with an arch made of two S-shaped stones, and plain stone coping.