94-126 Chester Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Terrace of shops. 1 related planning application.
94-126 Chester Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-corbel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Terrace of shops
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 April 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ3288NE 789-1/14/42
BIRKENHEAD CHESTER STREET (South side) No 94-126
(Formerly listed as Nos.94-104 (Even))
28/03/74 GV II
Terrace of six shops. c1847. Possibly by Walter Scott.
Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Three storeys and attic, 14-window range. Italianate style. Curved corner stressed by pilasters links to Nos 1-11, Cross Street and 128, Chester Street (q.v.). Five late C19 shop fronts, those to Nos. 94-98 with shallow canted bay windows. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with entablatures carried on console brackets to first floor, and on rosette corbels to second storey. Moulded cornice, then six-pane sash windows to attic. Tripartite windows in corner bay which has modillion eaves cornice. Axial stacks. The range formed part of the Market Cross development carried out by Walter Scott as a shopping centre and completed in 1847.
(The Buildings of England: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3265288756
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