12A, Shipgate Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE SHIPGATE STREET 595-1/6/362 (North West side) 10/01/72 No.12A (Formerly Listed as: SHIPGATE STREET No.12)

GV II

Town house, now partly converted to flats. Probably later C18 altered c1970. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof hipped at south-west end. 3 storeys, double-fronted; the end faces St Mary's Hill. Flush 2-storey sandstone plinth; 3 replaced steps to door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels in simple repaired pedimented case; a nearly flush 12-pane sash to each side has painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels; second storey sillband; 3 sashes similar to first storey; the third storey has three 9-pane sashes in openings similar to second storey; a ridge chimney. 8 courses of bevelled flush sandstone quoins at south corner, with stone corbel carrying square brick corner above; brick floor-bands to second and third storeys; a nearly flush 9-pane sash to each storey. The rear is reordered as the entrance to a court of late C20 flats. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4060565836