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: NUMBERS 47-57 STREET MIDLAND BANK
List entry Number: 1376242
Location
NUMBERS 47-57 STREET MIDLAND BANK, 47-57, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Unitary Authority | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment: 06-Aug-1998
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 470236
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History
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Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/166 (North side)
10/01/72 Nos.47-57 (odd) Street (Midland
Bank)
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
Nos.47-57 (Odd)
Midland Bank)
GV II
Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank, now Midland
Bank. 1883-4. By Douglas and Fordham. Enlarged 1908. Red
sandstone and stone-dressed brick with Westmorland green slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 high storeys, in schloss style. The vertically
expressed entrance bay has a wing of 2 windows, west, and a
3-window wing with a large front gable, east. The stone first
storey has modern glazed door in moulded case with Grosvenor
portcullis carved on lintel and mullioned windows with 2
transoms. Above the door corbels, with 2 coats of arms
between, support a canted 3-storey oriel-bay. The first storey
frieze to the east wing bears shields with the arms of the 12
former shires of Wales. The west bay of the second storey has
a canted oriel under a steep hipped roof; the other windows
have mullions and 2 transoms; leaded glazing in the upper
lights; a band of blank panel tracery and projecting diapers,
relieved with a coat of arms; the third storey has windows
with mullions and one transom, all with basket arches holding
tracery. The Grosvenor arms, centrally placed on the east
wing; 1883 in gilt metal figures; corbel table. The attic
storey has a spire with lead finial over the entrance bay, a
shorter spire west and an elaborate shaped gable to the east
wing with the Grosvenor sheaf, 4 finials and, on the roof
behind, a tapering square belfry with pyramidal roof and lead
finial. 2 shaped chimneys.
The east face to the City Wall is largely brick; windows have
brick mullions, stone transoms and basket-arched upper lights;
an angled oriel; a Tudor-arched door to the wall walk.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
53).
Listing NGR: SJ4069466354
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: B Harris - Title: Chester - Date: 1979 - Journal Title: Bartholomew City Guides - Page References: 53
National Grid Reference: SJ 40694 66354
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