Listed Building: RICHARD HOUSE (1376315)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/6/241 (West side) 10/01/72 Nos.78-84 (Even) Richard House (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BRIDGE STREET (West side) Nos.80 AND 82) (Formerly Listed as: LOWER BRIDGE STREET No.84) GV II Warehouse and town houses, now offices. Mid to later C18, front comprehensively restored and interior rebuilt c1980. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of 3 bays plus full-height altered loading-bay front, weatherboarded and with a casement to each storey, formerly a loading-door, at north end. The first storey has a 4;12;4-pane tripartite sash and, under a fascia and cornice, door of 6 fielded panels between a 32-pane reconstructed bow window and a 12-pane bow window formerly a shopfront; an L-shaped external stone stair of 5 and 4 steps, south, to second storey door of 6 fielded panels with overlight in simple pedimented case. The second storey has two 4;12;4-pane tripartite sashes and a Gothick fixed light. The third storey has a 4;12;4-pane tripartite sash and two 12-pane sashes above a sillband. The fourth storey has a tripartite sash and 2 single sashes. Windows have painted stone sills and gauged brick heads. A cast-iron rainwater pipe and head. 2 chimneys on south gable. The southern part of the front is angled towards Shipgate Street. INTERIOR is wholly rebuilt. Listing NGR: SJ4061865879