Number 39 Street Coach And Horses Public House

Public house, dated c1872, designed by the Chester architects Kelly and Edwards. Located on Northgate Street and Princess Street in Chester.

The building comprises three storeys with attics. The lower two storeys are constructed of sandstone-dressed English bond brown brickwork, while the third storey and gables are timber-framed with plaster panels and clay tile roof.

The east front to Northgate Street is arranged in two bays with a central doorway and a blocked former doorway at the corner of Princess Street. Seven spiral-moulded colonnettes of painted wood support a moulded cornice at ceiling level on carved consoles. The main door features three lower panels and leaded glazing in a large upper panel with an overlight. A renewed 5-light window south of the doorway and a 2-light window to the north both have hoppers above the transom. The blocked corner doorway is now filled in brick with a single-pane window.

The second storey has a 5-light window with stone mullions and recessed chamfered surrounds in the south bay, and a 2-light window in the north bay with similar dressing. The third storey is slightly jettied with a dentilled and moulded bressumer on two brackets at the corner, each carved with a female figure-head on its lower face. Small framing with curved braces adorns the lower panel at the ends of each bay. Ornamented panels sit beneath a 6-light mullioned and transomed canted oriel in the south bay and a 5-light window standing proud of the wall-face in the north bay. Carved female figures appear on the posts at each end and between the bays. The two front gables are jettied with dentilled carved bressumer on consoles, small framing with quadrant braces, carved bargeboards and finials. A moulded rainwater head sits at the north end.

The south face to Princess Street displays four spiral-moulded colonnettes to the first storey with a central six-panel door, the upper three glazed, housed in a doorcase with sidelights and overlight. A replaced 3-light window with hoppers above the transom sits to the east, and a 4-light window with central stone mullion and intermediate wood mullions to the west. The upper storeys echo the treatment of Northgate Street. The second storey has a 4-light mullioned window in the east section and a 2-light mullioned window in the west bay, separated by a central casement of four panes. The timber-framed third storey features a 4-light mullioned and transomed window to the east and a 6-light window to the west, both standing proud of the wall face. Above each window sits a jettied gable with dentilled and moulded bressumer on consoles, carved bargeboards and finials. Carved pendants appear at the eaves feet of the east gable. Two rows of five panels with single-pane windows separate the gables.

The rear south gable-end is plastered. The north gable-end is of brick with a broad double sash to the second storey and two 4-pane sashes to the third storey. A fire escape door has been added. Window openings have brick camber-arched heads. Two shaped brick chimneys rise from the roof.

The rear yard contains a former coach house and stable of brick with grey slate roof. The coach house features a double boarded door to the street with brick-nogged timber-framed gable above, a stable-door to the yard, hayloft with loading door and breathers, though the west wall has been rebuilt.

The interior public rooms are altered and retain no visible features of historical interest.