3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street

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SJ3288NE 789-1/14/99

BIRKENHEAD, MARKET STREET (South side), Nos. 3-9 (Odd)

28/03/74

GV II

Includes: Nos. 90 AND 92 CHESTER STREET.

Group of four shops at time of listing, incorporating the former Albion Hotel. c.1837. Albion Hotel by Edward Welch. Ashlar-faced with roof now missing but formerly Welsh slate. Three storeys, five-window range, unequally spaced. Three early C20 shop fronts with pilasters each side and beaded moulding over fascia, but parts of fascia missing. Upper window spaces now all missing cases, but probably formerly twelve-pane sashes. Moulded cornice. Pedimented return to Chester Street, a three-window range with stressed architraves, and the stone brackets for a balcony now missing. Central door and flanking windows in rusticated basement storey now largely blocked - only the stressed voussoirs are visible. Late C19 shop front with canted bay to left.

(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3266088778