Number 73 Street Former Fire Station

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/299 (West side) 10/01/72 No.73 Street (Former Fire Station) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET No.73 Fire Station)

GV II

Former fire station, now shop. 1911, altered. By James Strong. For Chester City Council. Stone-dressed brick; timber frame with plaster panels; clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The lower storey has 3 fire-engine garage bays, now a shop entrance and 2 showroom windows, with yellow sandstone ashlar corner piers, 2 intermediate stanchions expressed as panelled oak posts, a panelled fascia above each bay; long consoles on faces of piers and posts carry the jetty-beam to the timber-framed second storey. 3 half-round oriel windows with richly-carved skirts, carried on fan-vaults with oak ribs and plaster panels; each oriel has 4 moulded mullions and 2 moulded transoms; the central oriel has sidelights of 2 lights; all have shaped leaded glazing. Beneath the windows is a row of rectangular panels; 2 rows of 2 ornate panels between and to sides of windows. 3 small front gables are boldly jettied above a row of shaped panels; ornately panelled lozenge-braced trusses; a shaped red brick chimney at the south end; a large late C20 office block abuts the rear of the building. INTERIOR is covered in shopfitters' materials with no features of interest visible. There is no cellar. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB 1910).

Listing NGR: SJ4041166634