Numbers 62 And 64 Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Shop, house. 1 related planning application.

Numbers 62 And 64 Street

WRENN ID
frozen-niche-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Shop, house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A shop and two houses, dating from the mid-18th century, now used as a cafe and solicitor's office. The front of the building is constructed of red-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with a grey slate roof with a ridge running parallel to the street. The rendered first floor has a replacement stair door and a modern shopfront. The second floor features three flush 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels – these may be false and have dropped keystones. The third floor has similar windows, but with unequal 9-pane sashes. A moulded cornice sits beneath a five-course brick parapet with a plain stone coping. Chimneys are positioned before the ridge at each end of the building, and one behind the ridge at the north end.

The rear of the building faces an inaccessible yard. The cellar, running parallel to the street, measures approximately 6 by 3.5 metres. Rock-cut walls at the front and back are approximately 1.25 metres high, rising to greater heights towards the ends of the brick barrel vaults, incorporating some masonry and brick walling above the bedrock. A cross-vault runs back approximately one metre in the north half. A barrel-vaulted rock-cut chute is located near the south end. A flight of heavy stone steps, previously providing direct access from the street but now blocked, is positioned 0.7 metres from the north end. Brickwork at the end of the cross-vault and in the rear wall suggests that the cellars may have extended further east, but these are now blocked. The cellar is likely older than the building above. The first floor contains no readily visible features of interest. The stairwell, located in the original well, now possesses a small fixed light in the south gable, which is concealed from external view. The main second-floor room at the front has a full-width basket archway with panelled pilasters and lattice panelling to the intrados, along with a similarly decorated beam. It also features a fireplace with a moulded, shouldered architrave, an eared overmantel panel, and two tiers of side cupboards with fielded panels to their double doors. Other rooms include a painted chamfered beam, corner chimney breasts, and a cupboard with fielded-panelled doors on 'H' hinges.

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