Listed Building: 4, 6 AND 8, NICHOLAS STREET (1376326)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SW NICHOLAS STREET 595-1/3/266 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.4, 6 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: NICHOLAS STREET (West side) Nos 4-12 (even), No 14 & Nos 16-28 (even)) GV II 3 town houses, now shop and offices. c1781. By Joseph Turner of Chester (plaque on No.8). Brown brick in Flemish bond to front with roof of grey slate, some old. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each house of 2 bays. No.4 has an inserted recessed small-pane shopfront with square piers, frieze and moulded cornice probably of artificial stone; Nos 6 & 8 each have a recessed 5-panel door with a square 6-pane overlight in a tall case with frieze and cornice on panelled pilasters and a replaced tripartite recessed sash with painted stone sill; all windows have plastered wedge lintels, probably facing to gauged brick heads, with cambered soffits; second storey sillband; No.4 has 2 recessed 12-pane horned sashes; Nos 6 & 8 each have a 12-pane horned sash; Nos 6 & 8 each have a 12-pane sash and a 2;4;2 pane tripartite sash, all recessed and replaced; third storey sillband; six 9-pane recessed sashes; a lead rainwater head and pipe between Nos 4 & 6; moulded cornice and low parapet of painted stone; 2 brick chimneys at south end of each house. The houses are less tall than Nos 10-26 (even) Northgate Street (qv), with which they form a terrace. The north gable-end of No.4, rebuilt when No.2 was demolished, has a plain cap. The rear, with tunnel-backs to Nos 6 & 8, is altered, but with some 16-pane sashes. INTERIORS: No.4 has doors of 5 fielded panels in cases with panelled architraves, a shuttered embrasure and a ceiling cornice in the first storey, a 4-flight open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, a pattern of intertwined serpentine rods between the 2 balusters to each step and swept rail; simple early to mid C19 fireplaces. No.6 has a first storey cornice, a 4-flight open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, slender plinthed and tapered newels, 3 stick balusters per step and swept rail. The second storey front room has cornice with festoon frieze, doors of 5 fielded panels and probably early C19 wooden fire surrounds, painted. No.8 could not be inspected. Listing NGR: SJ4028066183