70, Foregate Street

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/104 (South side) 28/07/55 No.70

GV II

Small town house, now shop. Probably mid C17, altered. Timber frame with plaster panels; later brick wing to rear; roof of small grey slates. Cellar and 2 storeys of one bay; arcade with stop-chamfered end posts and a round-cornered central post on sandstone bases. Shopfront probably early C20 has cellar vents beneath a row of small framing; recessed porch, right, with canted sides and shop window with leaded glazing above transom; dentil cornice. Joists exposed over arcade. The first floor has rectangular flush bressumer and 7-light mullioned and transomed casement proud of wallface on brackets, with 3 shaped panels beneath and 2 panels to each side. Small-framed jettied front gable, shortened finial and replaced bargeboards. The sides of the first floor above the arcade have 3 panels beneath a leaded casement. The second bay, exposed right, is brick and render. The 3-storey third bay has projecting central chimney on gable to front. INTERIOR: Jacobean cross-beam. Stone steps to cellar. Doorway to room behind shop in late C17-early C18 manner, apparently altered and partly remade, has fluted pilasters and frieze on consoles. Surfaces in cellar and rear room are covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4094766386