Telfords Warehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Canal warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
Telfords Warehouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-rampart-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Canal warehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 RAYMOND STREET 1932-1/6/242 (North side) 10/01/72 Telford's Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: RAYMOND STREET Warehouse adjoining Harvest House)
GV II
Canal warehouse, now restaurant. c1790. By Thomas Telford. For the Chester and Ellesmere Port Canal Company. English garden wall bond brown brick; hipped grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Raymond Street, 3 to Tower Wharf. The face to Raymond Street has replaced windows in unaltered segmental-arched openings with painted stone sills, and recessed sashes in openings with wedge lintels. A full-height loading-bay, now with false doors. The ground floor has replaced window; loading-bay; 2 replaced windows; window in former doorway; a 16-pane sash; three steps in recessed round-arched porch to door with 3-pane overlight. The first floor has a replaced window; part-glazed filling to loading-bay; a replaced window; two squat 8-pane sashes. Simple stone fascia; boldly-projecting boxed eaves in Telford's manner; brick ridge-chimney. The south-west face to the Ellesmere Canal has 2 round-arched openings on stone plinths to the covered loading dock; the boats entered by the opening at the corner of the north-west end; the dock is in the north-west wing of the warehouse. The main block has sandstone rubbing blocks to corner; loading-bay with doorway to each storey converted to a window; a replaced 1-pane window to each side of loading-bay in each storey. The north-west face of the rear wing has boat-way to the covered dock, with a great full-width window inserted above, 1980s; replaced vertical boarding in gable. The face of the main block has a 16-pane sash to the ground floor and first floor and an 8-pane sash to the second floor east of the rear wing, and replaced windows above the rear wing. The north-east side has a pair of doors of 6 flush panels with a 3-pane overlight; a 16-pane sash to each side. The first floor has three 16-pane sashes. The second floor has four 8-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4005466622
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