Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/432 (North side)
28/07/55 No.102 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.102)

GV II

Town house. c1780, of one build with No.104 Street (qv).
Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: semi-basement and 3 full storeys. 6 repaired steps
to door, east, of 5 fielded panels, the top panel being
horizontal, with a radial-bar fanlight above a 3-pane
overlight, in a recessed round-arched porch with a thin
pedimented case; modern hopper casements to the basement are
in square openings above a painted stone plinth; 2 recessed
12-pane sashes to the first storey, 3 to the second storey and
3 of 6 panes to the third storey, all with painted stone sills
and wedge lintels with cambered soffits. The cornice,
continuous with No.104, is returned at east end.
The rear has a long 3-storey wing with a blank east side, an
altered west side with recessed 16-pane sashes and rear
gable-end with a recessed round-arched porch and an inserted
6-pane fixed light to the second storey.
INTERIOR: the basement beneath the front room, reached by
stone steps, has 2 recesses to east, barrel vaulted in brick.
The front room of the first storey has a door of 6 fielded
panels, a basket-arched broad niche in the rear wall and a
modillion plaster cornice. Panelled archways to stair hall and
thence to rear lobby; doors of 6 fielded panels to office and
to rear dining room, and of 5 panels to lavatory; the good
open-string open-well stair to second and third storeys,
starting with curtail and 7 winders, has 2 plinthed square
balusters per step, a fluted bottom newel, turned newels at
quarter turns and a swept handrail; the upper rooms, not
inspected, have doors of 6 fielded panels, some replaced by
flush doors; a plain lantern to the stairwell. There is a
plain rear staircase.

Listing NGR: SJ4015466202

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657019

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)