Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/187 (South side)
28/07/55 No.60 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.60 Street)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.48 EASTGATE STREET.
Includes: No.11 CITY WALLS.
Town house, possibly having third-storey shop with access from
the City Wall, now building society office and third storey
shop. Probably c1770 to the plan of either Joseph Turner then
of Hawarden or Mr Heyden, then Surveyor to Grosvenor Estate.
Rendered, probably over brick, and stone-dressed; graded grey
slate roof, ridge parallel with the front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus cellar and roof attic. The first
storey has a 3-bay Tuscan colonnade to Eastgate Street
abutting the Eastgate, east, and with a rectangular end-pier,
west; covered frieze; cornice. The office front in the
colonnade has no features of interest. Rusticated quoins to
the third and fourth storeys; 3 nearly flush 12-pane sashes
with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with
false keystones to each upper storey. Moulded eaves cornice
and parapet with plain stone coping.
The west gable-end has a pair of replaced windows to the first
storey, a nearly flush 12-pane stair sash between the second
and third storeys and a short small-pane attic sash. The back
is of old brick in irregular bond, altered in hard red brick
and with replaced windows, some under cambered brick heads.
The east side has 2 replaced doors giving access to the shop
from the City Wall, and an inserted window; the central
doorway has a Georgian case. The attic storey has a 6-pane
flush sash and an inserted small-pane casement.
INTERIORS not inspected.
For reference to possible architects see The Eastgate,
Eastgate Street (qv).
(Assembly Books: 2/20/1767,22/2/1768).

Listing NGR: SJ4080065900

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656868

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)