7, Grosvenor Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1998. Office. 1 related planning application.
7, Grosvenor Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-tower-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1998
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Grosvenor Street is a building that serves as the WRVS office, originally established in 1898 as a home and center for midwives and later as a nurses' home. It was designed by Douglas and Minshull for the Chester Benevolent Institution, funded by the 1st Duke of Westminster, to provide free midwifery services for the poor. The building features diapered stone-dressed Ruabon red brick and a Westmorland green slate roof, showcasing a Vernacular Revival style.
The exterior is composed of two and three storeys with four bays. It has a flush ashlar sandstone plinth and a canted recessed porch with two stone steps leading to a panelled door. This door includes two small leaded lights on wrought-iron hinges, set within a stone basket arch. Above the porch is a larger basket arch topped with a carved stone panel inscribed "W:1898," indicating the building's funding source. The sides of the panel feature volutes. The windows are leaded and arranged with mullions and transoms under basket-arched heads. The first storey has one four-light casement west of the door and two three-light windows to the east. The second storey includes a moulded floor string, flush sill band, and lintel band, with a three-light casement to the west, one of two lights above the doorway, followed by two three-light windows and one of two lights. The three-storey section to the east of the doorway has two three-light casements and one of two lights, along with two dormer gables and two shaped ridge chimneys. The east side features various small-pane timber casements and a jettied canted bay of brick spanning the second and third storeys, along with a one-storey outshut to the west.
The interior retains some original fireplaces and doors with reeded stiles, rails, and muntins.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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