15 And 17, Newgate Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET 595-1/4/261 (East side) 10/01/72 Nos.15 AND 17 (Formerly Listed as: NEWGATE STREET (East side) No.15)

GV II

2 town houses converted to one, now offices. Early C18 altered. Orange Flemish bond brick; grey slate roof, ridge at right angle to front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 6 windows. The first storey is rebuilt in approximately similar style, with double doors of 3 fielded panels in case with pilasters, frieze and cornice; a tripartite small-pane window to each side; boarded loading-doors with 12-pane overlight, south. The second storey has 6 replaced 14-pane horned sashes with small recessed sills and flat gauged brick arches with brick keys. 3-course third storey floorband; 6 nearly flush 12-pane sashes, the 3 to north replaced and horned, the 3 to south with thick glazing bars of early type; small recessed sills and gauged brick arches with keys; painted stone cyma cornice; a lateral chimney to each side. The rear, added to in C19, has old brickwork but no visible features of special interest. INTERIOR: the basement has brick walls, segmental archways and quarry floors. The front rooms of the first storey have C20 panelling and rebuilt ceiling structure; a rear room has a 3-panel ceiling with 2 stop-chamfered longitudinal beams and moulded plaster cornices. No.15 has an open-well closed-string stair with square drop-newels, 3 stout turned balusters per step and heavy moulded straight rail; the similarly detailed stair to No.17 is altered, of one flight with winders at foot and head. The second storey north front room has a cornice and replaced doors. Door of 4 fielded panels in panelled case to south front room, benches in panelled embrasures, full panelling with one row below the dado and one above it, a later fireplace and a dentil cornice. The rear north room has 2 longitudinal stop-chamfered beams and a cornice to each ceiling panel. Rooms in the rear wing have no visible features of special interest. The third storey has embrasure benches in the front south rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ4070966211