Number 70 Street Old Custom House

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/420 (North side) 10/01/72 No.70 Street (Old Custom House) (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.70 Old Custom House)

GV II

Custom House of the Port of Chester, now office. Rebuilt 1868 with Gothic Revival detail. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 3 windows. Sandstone plinth and flush quoins. Door and window openings to the front have stone surrounds with quoins and hoodmoulds, all with relieving arches of alternating red and yellow sandstone voussoirs. The replaced door to right has an arched stone overlight of a quatrefoil between 2 smaller ones with the inscription "THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE BLDG". 2 sashes to the lower storey of one pane above 2 have steeply-weathered sills; a moulded first-floor band; the upper storey has 3 sashes of one pane over 2, with 2 superimposed sills, the upper ones being recessed. The stone parapet, pierced with quatrefoils, has a raised centrepiece bearing the Royal arms in relief. The west gable-end is plain, with a brick chimney with stone band and cap, and now linked to the west end of the Guildhall, formerly Holy Trinity Church, by a screen wall; the east end is built against the tower of the Guildhall. INTERIOR: patterned tiled floor to entrance bay; stair with narrow open well has newel, and 2 turned balusters to each step; plaster cornices to entrance bay and stair well; 6-panel doors, most now covered; 2 panels beneath east front window to second storey; modern extension at rear.

Listing NGR: SJ4030566231