List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: No name for this Entry
List Entry Number: 1375808
Location
113, FOREGATE STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 23-Jul-1998
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 469787
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History
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Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 FOREGATE STREET
1932-1/6/117 (North side)
No.113
GV II
Shop and accommodation. 1890. By John Douglas. For the first
Duke of Westminster, forming part of a single design with
No.115 Parker's Buildings (qv) and No.117 Foregate Street
(qv). Stone-dressed red Ruabon brick; red clay tile roof.
3 storeys, 3 windows. Shopfront has recessed double doors with
a colonnette-mullioned shop window to each side; panelled
side-pilasters; wrought-iron sign bracket dated 1890. The
first floor has 3 sashes of 6 panes above 2 panes in ornate
sandstone cases; similar sashes, but of 12 panes, to second
floor. Shaped gable with stone band, blue-brick diapers, stone
volutes, coping and 5 finials.
The right side forms west face of forecourt to Parker's
Buildings; high, flush sandstone plinth; a projecting lateral
chimney with shaped stack; miscellaneous stone-dressed
windows; 2-storey rear wing.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Bath Street, Grosvenor Park Road and Union Street have
adjacent groups of buildings designed by Douglas.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 167;
260).
Listing NGR: SJ4103266444
Selected Sources
Books and journalsHubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 167, 260
Map
National Grid Reference: SJ 41032 66444
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