19A King Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW KING STREET 595-1/1/209 (South side) No.19A

GV II

Showrooms and warehouse. Probably late C19, of Classical derivation. Painted rusticated stone first storey; hard red brick above; grey slate roof has ridge parallel with street.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. The first storey has a central tripartite sash of 8:12:8 panes with framed and diagonally boarded double vehicle doors, east, and late C20 hardwood glazed showroom doors, west, each under a segmental arch with large voussoirs.

Plain painted band at second storey floor level. Second and third storeys are in English garden wall bond with 6 double-square 20-pane metal hoppers in openings with bevelled reveals and cambered heads to second storey; band at third storey floor level has a recessed dogtooth course between 2 projecting courses with oversailing moulded course; 6 third storey windows similar to those of second storey but, shorter, of 16 panes. The rear has a long yard with a 2-storey outshut along its north side and 2-storey storage buildings on west and south sides, all of brown brick with grey slate roofs and small-paned wood windows of horizontal proportion; 4 similar windows to top storey of main block, above the lean-to roof of the outshut. INTERIOR: has no identified features of special interest. Included for group value as a well detailed and unaltered component of the streetscape.





Listing NGR: SJ4034666573

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1777 IOE Records taken by Peter Sargeant; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter Sargeant. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project