113, Foregate Street

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/117 (North side) No.113

GV II

Shop and accommodation. 1890. By John Douglas. For the first Duke of Westminster, forming part of a single design with No.115 Parker's Buildings (qv) and No.117 Foregate Street (qv). Stone-dressed red Ruabon brick; red clay tile roof. 3 storeys, 3 windows. Shopfront has recessed double doors with a colonnette-mullioned shop window to each side; panelled side-pilasters; wrought-iron sign bracket dated 1890. The first floor has 3 sashes of 6 panes above 2 panes in ornate sandstone cases; similar sashes, but of 12 panes, to second floor. Shaped gable with stone band, blue-brick diapers, stone volutes, coping and 5 finials. The right side forms west face of forecourt to Parker's Buildings; high, flush sandstone plinth; a projecting lateral chimney with shaped stack; miscellaneous stone-dressed windows; 2-storey rear wing. INTERIOR not inspected. Bath Street, Grosvenor Park Road and Union Street have adjacent groups of buildings designed by Douglas. (Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 167; 260).

Listing NGR: SJ4103266444