Listed Building: 47 AND 49, FOREGATE STREET (1375800)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/113 (North side) 23/05/67 Nos.47 AND 49 (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET Nos.47 AND 49 Old Nag's Head Inn) GV II Town house, later hotel, now shop and ancillary accommodation. 1597, rebuilt approximately in original form 1914 for Peter Walker and Sons Brewery, restored and converted to part of shop premises c1980. Timber frame with plaster panels; steel framing; Westmorland green slate roof, ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays, almost symmetrical. Triple modern doors just left of centre; polished granite plinth, carried up beneath each post; 2 narrow 2-pane windows and a modern secondary door left of entrance; 4 similar windows right of entrance. End-posts and post between each opening have Ionic reverse-taper pilasters having herms with varied expressions, carrying corbels. Jettied first floor has quadrant-braced small-framing, a central mullioned and transomed 3-light casement and a canted 5-light mullioned and transomed oriel on 3 ornate consoles to each side. The second floor has a central 2-light casement above 2 arch-braced panels; a tripartite 1;2;1 light casement and herringbone struts in jettied gable on 2 herms, to each side; all windows are leaded. A wrought-iron sign-bracket over doorway. The tiebeam to left gable is inscribed "BUILT 1597 AD"; the right gable tiebeam is inscribed "REBUILT 1914 AD". Bargeboards and drop finials. A lavishly detailed tall brick chimney on ridge, right of centre. INTERIOR not inspected. Listing NGR: SJ4085066453