Number 5 And Warehouse Adjacent To House, Including Railings And Post

Number 5 and the adjacent warehouse, including railings and a post, are located on Canal Street in Chester and date from around 1830 and 1870. They were likely built for the Shropshire Union Canal Company. The buildings are constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond and red brick in Flemish bond, topped with grey slate roofs.

The exterior features two storeys with a double-fronted wing from the 1870s that is stone-dressed, along with an older parallel rear wing and a long workshop wing on the right. The symmetrical front of the house has canted corners and a stone-capped plinth. There is an apron step leading to a door with four fielded panels and a one-pane fanlight set in a round-arched opening with flush stone quoins. The windows include a tripartite arrangement of 2;2;2 pane sashes on either side of the doorway and a 2-pane sash in each canted corner. The first floor has two pairs of 2-pane sashes at the front and one sash in each corner, along with a cornice and a one-course stone parapet. The roof is hipped towards the street.

The workshop wing features large vehicular doors that are boarded and part-glazed, along with small-pane windows that have stone sills and segmental gauged brick heads. It has a hipped roof and a lean-to outshut on the south side. The east end of the house has an unbroken brick joint between the front and rear wings. The rear includes a six-panel door with a segmental arch and Tudor-arched brick window openings that have painted stone sills and Gothick iron casements with reticulated tracery, with two windows south of the door and one north of it, plus two windows on the first floor.

Inside, there are panelled dados, two fireplaces (one featuring a slender pillared overmantel), and a staircase with an open string, shaped brackets, a shaped newel, and cast-iron balusters from around 1870. The interior also showcases exposed beams and joists.

The property includes subsidiary features such as a cast-iron corner post, a gate, and garden railings along the street, which have a cross-braced bottom rail, a lock-rail, and a double top rail with roundels, as well as spears and acanthus finials.