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: ST WERBURGH MOUNT
List entry Number: 1376391
Location
ST WERBURGH MOUNT, 19-27, ST WERBURGH STREET
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: 470386
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List entry Description
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET
595-1/4/349 (South side)
10/01/72 Nos.19-27 (Odd)
St Werburgh Mount
(Formerly Listed as:
ST WERBURGH STREET
No.19)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST WERBURGH STREET
Nos.21 AND 23)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST WERBURGH STREET
Nos.25 AND 27)
GV II
Row of 5 shops and upper storey premises. 1874. By John
Douglas. For George Hodgkinson, with Nos 15 & 17 St Werburgh
Street (qv). Timber-framed with herringbone brick nogging;
some plaster panels; brown tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: No.19 is 3 storeys, the other properties 2 storeys.
A colonnade carries the projecting upper storeys on 7 timber
posts with sandstone plinths. The shopfronts divided by brick
piers have timber-framed brick-nogged stallrisers; No.19 has a
9-panel door with reeded muntins and rails; Nos 25 & 27 have
similar doors of 6 panels, now glazed; Nos 21 & 23 have
replaced doors; No.19 has a 3-pane window, the other shops
1-pane windows; leaded glazing above the transoms of all shop
windows. The colonnade has a timber bressumer with quadrant
braces; the ceiling has exposed beams and joists.
The upper storeys of No.19 project under a front gable, with a
narrow 2-cross-rail plaster panel to the side, containing an
oriel through both storeys on a coved apron with moulded coved
brackets, having casement of 6 lights with 2 transoms to the
second storey and one transom to the third storey; 4 panels of
floral pargeting between lower and upper casements; coved
jetty; gable with quadrant and herringbone braces and plaster
panels; panelled bargeboards; terracotta finial. Nos 21 & 23
have brick-nogged small framing, each with a mullioned and
transomed 3;3; light casement with leaded glazing above the
transom, beneath a cove-jettied gable with a hipped tile apron
beneath flowers-and-foliage pargeting. Nos 25 & 27 each has a
3;3 light mullioned oriel with leaded glazing above the
transom, plaster-panelled coved apron and side-panels; a
cove-jettied gable above each window has quadrant and
herringbone braces, panelled bargeboards and terracotta
finial. 3 shaped brick chimneys.
INTERIORS: most features in the shops are covered. Upper
storeys not inspected.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 23/4 &
12/11/1873).
Listing NGR: SJ4061666386
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National Grid Reference: SJ 40607 66385
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