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: NUMBER 35 STREET
List entry Number: 1376389
Location
2-18, ST WERBURGH STREET
NUMBER 35 STREET, 35, 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: 23-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 06-Aug-1998
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 470384
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History
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Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET
595-1/4/352 (East side)
23/05/67 Nos.2-18 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.35)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST WERBURGH STREET
Nos.2-18 (Even)
Martin's Bank (2) Martin's Bank
Chambers (4))
GV II*
Includes: No.35 Street EASTGATE STREET AND ROW.
Terrace of bank, 7 shops and offices. 1895-9. By John Douglas
as architect and developer. Yellow sandstone and
plaster-panelled timber framing; stone was intended
throughout, but changed to timber frame at request of the
first Duke of Westminster; green Westmorland slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus part attic; one bay to Eastgate
Street and 9 bays to St Werburgh Street. The bank comprising
No.35 Eastgate Street and Nos 2 & 4 St Werburgh Street has
stone first storey on polished granite plinth; double 9-panel
doors in moulded basket archway to street corner, with
corbelled head of 3 cusped ogee arches dated 1897; a
basket-arched 4-light mullioned and transomed window with
carved spandrels and shields to Eastgate Street; 3 similar
windows followed by 2 of 3 lights and a 3-panel oak secondary
door to St Werburgh Street; a shield bearing a grasshopper and
an eagle with olive leaf. The 7 shopfronts to St Werburgh
Street have sandstone piers; No.8 has a probably original
carved stall-riser.
The second storey is small-framed, all windows having
mullions, transoms and leaded glazing: a 5-light oriel to
Eastgate Street; a 4-light corner oriel on a stone corbel;
casements varying between each bay, including some oriels, to
St Werburgh Street; every main framing element is decorated;
10 saints in niches; Nos 6 & 8 St Werburgh Street are in
Jacobean Ionic style. The third storey is jettied, with
mullioned windows varied between bays; a broad shallow oriel
to No.4 St Werburgh Street and a large jettied tourelle oriel
at the corner of No.18. A gable to Eastgate Street; 4 dormer
gables, 6 full gables and a dormer gable to St Werburgh
Street; an octagonal spire with weather-vane on a lead finial
over the tourelle.
The roof attic set back over Nos 2 & 4 St Werburgh Street has
leaded casements under a continuous dormer roof. Ridge
chimneys of varied shape, some spirally moulded.
One of several building groups where Douglas was both
architect and developer, he stated that he undertook this
development to ensure that its design was suited to the
prominent site adjacent to the Cathedral.
INTERIORS, which could not be inspected systematically, retain
some original features.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 162).
Listing NGR: SJ4065366358
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard - Title: Cheshire - Date: 1971 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England - Page References: 162
National Grid Reference: SJ 40648 66367
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