Ye Gardeners Arms Public House

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 CHRISTLETON ROAD 1932-1/6/46 (North side) No.33 Ye Gardeners Arms Public House

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Public house. 1907. By JH Davies and Sons. For the Albion Brewery. Front of sandstone and timber framing with plaster panels; right side rendered; Westmorland green slate roof with ridge to front gable meeting main ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and roof attic, double-fronted. Ground floor of banded red and yellow sandstone. Oak doorway with long consoles and carved Tudor-arched head; a 3-light mullioned leaded window to each side; rear entry left; long consoles support jettied timber-framed first floor; a row of small-framed shaped plaster panels; almost continuous glazing, mullioned and leaded: oriel triangular in plan above entrance; a 4-light canted oriel to each side; a 2-light casement above entry, left; one-light casement far right. The almost full-width front gable has row of quadrant-braced small-framing with a 3-light leaded attic casement above; bargeboards and carved finial; red brick chimneys. A well-handled unaltered front; the right side and rear have no individual features of special interest visible. INTERIOR: intact; the licensed rooms have 3 rows of oak panelling, up to moulded oak picture rail; back-to-back fireplaces to front and rear rooms, right; fireplace to front room left; cross-beams with roll-moulds to arrises. (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 16.1.1907).

Listing NGR: SJ4197366406