11A, 11B And 13, Upper Northgate Street

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 UPPER NORTHGATE STREET 1932-1/6/279 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.11A, 11B AND 13

GV II

Pair of town houses, now shop and 4 flats. Mid C18. Flemish bond brown brick; a pair of hipped grey slate roofs at right-angle to front. 3 storeys of 4 bays. The ground floor has a recessed colonnade behind rusticated end-piers and 3 intermediate unfluted Roman Doric columns. Rusticated quoins to upper storeys. Modern shopfront; inserted door, north, has two rows of 3 panels. The upper storeys have flush sashes with moulded sills, rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones and louvred shutters, probably usable: four 12-pane sashes to front and one at each end, over colonnade, to the first floor; four 6-pane sashes to the front and one on each end to the second floor. Full cornice; 2 lateral chimney to each side, the stacks to south rebuilt. INTERIOR: stone steps to flat-ceiled cellars. The ground floor has opening of old open fireplace with oak bressumer, against south wall. An oak chamfered cross-beam. The upper storeys could not be inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4037966772