Listergate, 80 Chapel Street and associated boundary wall

Listergate, 80 Chapel Street and associated boundary wall

A red brick house built in the late 18th century, extended in the late 18th or early 19th century, and again in the mid-20th century, now converted to offices. The building is accompanied by an associated boundary wall to the rear.

The materials comprise red brick throughout, with a rendered front elevation facing Chapel Street. The mid-20th century extension is also of red brick.

The building follows an L-shaped plan, with a rectangular block facing west towards Chapel Street and two rectangular extensions projecting to the rear (east).

The main structure is a two-storey house with an attic storey, originally built in the late 18th century. The slate roof is hipped to the front rectangular section and gabled to the rear projection, with a red brick chimney stack running to the ridge. The attic dormers and mid-20th century extension are both fitted with flat roofs. The front elevation to Chapel Street is rendered and presents a symmetrical three-bay two-storey design with dormers to the attic. A projecting cornice sits above the parapet, and a plain platband runs over the ground floor. The first floor windows have plain cornices above them, whilst the ground floor windows are fitted with lugged architraves. The windows are six-over-six pane timber sash windows, with timber casements serving the attic. The central door surround is plain, flanked by engaged channelled pilasters on either side, each with an original cast-iron boot scrape at its base. The door itself was replaced in the late 20th or early 21st century and features a plain rectangular overlight. The side elevation facing north towards the Chapel of St Nicholas is two storeys high with an attic. It is constructed in red brick displaying two distinct phases: the late 18th century building incorporates some ashlar rubble at ground floor level, whilst the late 18th or early 19th century extension skews slightly southward and carries a plain platband over the ground floor. Two bays of windows are present, with the eastern first floor window having nine panes over six. The rear (east) elevation is gabled and two-and-a-half storeys high, with a mid-20th century flat-roofed two-storey extension to the east.

The interior retains much of its original plan form, excepting the removal of the ground-floor wall between the entrance hall and reception, and the insertion of partition walls that subdivide ground and first floor rooms. A central corridor on the ground floor provides access from the front entrance, passing through a round arch with engaged pilasters, to the stair hall at the rear. The north-west office (facing west to Chapel Street) was subdivided in the late 20th or early 21st century but retains part of its decorative cornice and window shutters in the eastern section. The stair hall, located in the late 18th or early 19th century extension, features an early plaster rosette (the light fitting has been removed). The stair itself comprises timber treads and slender turned balusters beneath a moulded handrail. Beneath the stair, a brick-lined cellar survives, and to the rear a small kitchen occupies the ground floor of the mid-20th century extension. At the turn of the stairs, three steps provide access to a first-floor office in the mid-20th century extension via what was formerly a stair window. The first floor is similarly served by a central corridor providing access to offices to the north and south, with those to the front subdivided. The central corridor here likewise features a round-headed arch with engaged pilasters. To the south of the corridor, an arch provides access to what is now a toilet corridor, which contains an elliptical-headed niche on its east wall. The main stair rises from the first floor to the attic, where the central corridor is spanned by a wide elliptical-headed arch.

A red brick wall extends eastwards from the north elevation, enclosing a small rear yard. It features a round-arched opening containing a square-headed timber door providing access to the churchyard of the Chapel of St Nicholas.