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24 and 26, Queen Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1926 / 53°11'33"N

Longitude: -2.8863 / 2°53'10"W

OS Eastings: 340879

OS Northings: 366530

OS Grid: SJ408665

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2TMY

Mapcode Global: WH88F.M0RV

Plus Code: 9C5V54V7+2F

Entry Name: 24 and 26, Queen Street

Listing Date: 10 January 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375910

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469889

ID on this website: 101375910

Location: Newtown, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Chester

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description



CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 QUEEN STREET
1932-1/6/232 (East side)
10/01/72 Nos.24 AND 26

GV II

Pair of town houses, now nursing home. c1770. Flemish bond
brown brick with grey slate roof.
Cellars and 3 storeys. Painted stone plinth with cellar vent
to each house; pair of doorways, 2 stone steps to each, left
door of 5 fielded panels, right door 6 fielded panels;
overlights; paired architraves, each eared to outer side and
with panelled jambs and soffit to right door; continuous
frieze and cornice; the left house has a 16-pane flush sash,
the right house a 4;12;4-pane sash. Each house has two flush
12-pane sashes to first floor; right house has sillband;
continuous vertical joint between the houses to both upper
storeys. The left house has an unequal 12-pane flush sash to
second floor, the right house two flush 9-pane sashes. Painted
stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with keystones. Flush
chimneys, one before the ridge and one behind the ridge of
each house.
The left (north) gable is rendered; a 20-pane unequal sash
near rear of each storey; the rear has sash of 4 rows of 5
panes to ground floor, a 16-panes sash to each upper storey,
the panes square in second floor. The right side has a
replaced 6-pane sash to first floor and a 9-pane sash to
second floor. The rear is built against.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4087966529

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