Listed Building: THE CARLTON TAVERN (1375912)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4065 QUEEN'S PARK VIEW 1932-1/8/234 (South East side) 10/01/72 The Carlton Tavern (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN'S PARK VIEW Walkers Carlton Tavern) II Public house. 1920s. For Walkers Warrington Brewery. Brick and stucco; grey-green slate roof. Neo Georgian and Art Deco. 2 storeys, double fronted. Portico semicircular in plan with half-column responds and 2 columns of Delian derivation, architrave, frieze and cornice; blue brick plinth; small-pane doors; 2 bow windows on quarter-sphere corbels have 3 rows of 3 curved panes below transom and one row above, simple friezes and hoods. Decorated stucco band below 3 casements of two 8-pane lights with iron lattice window-boxes; shutters; 2 symmetrically placed iron rainwater pipes and heads; frieze and dentil cornice; short 1-storey left wing with wall descending as a volute to yard wall. 2 approximately symmetrically placed chimneys. The right side to Hartington Street has a rectangular 2-column porch, double doors of small panes above a fielded panel; 2 broad bow windows; upper storey detailed as front, with 2 casements. Wrought-iron bracket to corner sign. INTERIOR: with licensed rooms around a panelled central bar, panelled dado, consoles to lintels, ceiling cornices and probably light-fittings and roses, is largely intact. A good and complete example of an inter-war pub. Listing NGR: SJ4097165463