Listed Building: 128, 128A, 130 AND 132, FOREGATE STREET (1375813)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4166 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/109 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.128, 128A, 130 & 132 (Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET Nos.128, 130 AND 132) GV II 3 town houses, now 4 shops and accommodation. 1777, with C19 and C20 alterations. Brown brick, Flemish bond to front; grey slate and clay tile roofs. EXTERIOR: the right house, now Nos 128 and 130, has two C20 shopfronts, 3 recessed 2-pane sashes to first floor and 2 similar but shorter sashes to second floor. The central bay has C20 restaurant front and upper windows similar to those of Nos 128 and 130 but with 6 panes to upper leaves of first floor and 3 panes in each leaf to second floor. No.132 has vehicle entry under lintel and a narrow modern shop front; the first floor has 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, the second floor 6-pane sashes. All upper storey windows have painted stone sills and wedge lintels. Rainwater pipe between Nos 130 and 132 has upper bracket dated 1777 and cast lead head; an unbroken vertical joint between central and left house; modillion cornice. The right and central houses have ridges at right-angle to street, the left house a tiled roof, ridge parallel with front. The central house has an 18-pane stair window to side. INTERIORS not inspected, but some Georgian detailing in upper rooms is visible from street. Listing NGR: SJ4111366437