Listed Building: NUMBER 60 STREET (1376245)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/187 (South side) 28/07/55 No.60 Street (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.60 Street) GV II Formerly known as: No.48 EASTGATE STREET. Includes: No.11 CITY WALLS. Town house, possibly having third-storey shop with access from the City Wall, now building society office and third storey shop. Probably c1770 to the plan of either Joseph Turner then of Hawarden or Mr Heyden, then Surveyor to Grosvenor Estate. Rendered, probably over brick, and stone-dressed; graded grey slate roof, ridge parallel with the front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus cellar and roof attic. The first storey has a 3-bay Tuscan colonnade to Eastgate Street abutting the Eastgate, east, and with a rectangular end-pier, west; covered frieze; cornice. The office front in the colonnade has no features of interest. Rusticated quoins to the third and fourth storeys; 3 nearly flush 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones to each upper storey. Moulded eaves cornice and parapet with plain stone coping. The west gable-end has a pair of replaced windows to the first storey, a nearly flush 12-pane stair sash between the second and third storeys and a short small-pane attic sash. The back is of old brick in irregular bond, altered in hard red brick and with replaced windows, some under cambered brick heads. The east side has 2 replaced doors giving access to the shop from the City Wall, and an inserted window; the central doorway has a Georgian case. The attic storey has a 6-pane flush sash and an inserted small-pane casement. INTERIORS not inspected. For reference to possible architects see The Eastgate, Eastgate Street (qv). (Assembly Books: 2/20/1767,22/2/1768). Listing NGR: SJ4080065900