71, FOREGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/114 (North side) 28/07/55 No.71

GV II

Includes: No.2 QUEEN STREET. Town house now shop and masonic lodge. Early C18 refronted to Queen Street 1883. Stone-dressed Flemish bond orange brick; grey slate hipped roof, ridge at right-angle to Foregate Street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 windows. The 3-bay arcade to Foregate Street has columns and responds carrying stone basket-arches with alternate voussoirs moulded and projecting, and triple keystones; rusticated end-piers to arcade and quoins to upper storeys. C20 shopfront. First-floor sillband; 3 flush 15-pane sashes; rusticated lintels with projecting keys. The second floor has 3 flush 9-pane sashes with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with keys; modillion cornice and 1-course stone parapet. The long west face to Queen Street has C18 eared and pedimented case to 6-panel door; the rest dates from 1883, with small-pane sashes and stone-dressed cross-windows, the latter in 2 projecting bays with pediments above eaves level, the rear one of stone with cartouche; a blunt spire behind the pediment. INTERIOR: a good open-well stair with newels and close-set slender turned balusters; 6-panel doors, some with lower and upper cross-panels; moulded plaster ceilings; first-floor dining room and second-floor hall occupy full width of the front. (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 7.2.1883).

Listing NGR: SJ4091266422