Number 78 Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/421 (North side) 28/07/55 No.78 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.78)

GV II

Includes: No.1 LINEN HALL PLACE. Town house, unoccupied when inspected. Probably mid C18. Flemish bond yellow-brown brick; grey slate roof, hipped to street corner. 3 storeys. The front to Watergate Street has a red sandstone plinth, 2 tripartite sashes of 4;12;4 panes with painted stone sills and cambered arches of reddish gauged brick to first and second storeys; casements inserted in third storey window openings; modillion stone cornice; chimney at each end; the entrance is to Linenhall Street, with door of 4 bolection-moulded panels with 3-pane overlight in a simple pedimented doorcase. 2 small-pane street windows in wood sub-frames are in inserted chamber-arched openings right of door; 2 street-framed casements in original camber-arched sash openings in second storey; a 12-pane flush sash and a sash altered to 6 panes with painted sills and timber lintels in third storey; an eaves facia-board. The rear gable-end is cement rendered, with a replaced door and a replaced metal casement to each storey. INTERIOR: access not possible.

Listing NGR: SJ4025866224