Listed Building: NUMBERS 66-74 STREET (1376359)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/319 (East side) 10/01/72 Nos.66-74 (even) Street (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET (East side) Nos.66 AND 68) GV II Range of 4 shops and town houses, now 3 shops with an office in No.72 above No.70. Mid C18. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front; grey slate roof has ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics. Rusticated quoins of painted stone at south end, but removed except for 2 above the cornice at the north end. C20 shopfronts, in genteel keeping. Windows are flush sashes with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels, perhaps false, mostly with corniced keystones. To the second storey No.66 has a pair of tall 15-pane sashes, No.68 a shorter 16-pane sash, No.72 a replaced 2-pane window to each side of a blocked opening, and No.74 two 4-pane sashes. To the third storey No.66 has two 12-pane sashes and No.68 one, No.72 has a replaced 2-pane window to each side of a blocked opening with gauged brick heads and plain lintels and No.74 has two 4-pane sashes. A cornice beneath the parapet of 6 brick courses with a plain stone coping. One gabled roof-dormer each to Nos 66 & 68; a raking full-width dormer with horizontally-sliding sashes to No.72. Brick chimneys at south end of No.66, on the ridge of No.68, three between Nos 68 & 72 and one at the north end of No.74. INTERIORS: could not be inspected systematically, but features include a rock-cut brick barrel-vaulted cellar, running back, 7 x 3.5m, with former beer-drop blocked in stone. Similar cellars may exist in other parts of the range. In upper storeys there are chamfered oak beams, some lambs tongue stopped; some Georgian stairs. Listing NGR: SJ4048066519