Listed Building: 4, SHIPGATE STREET (1376400)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4065NE SHIPGATE STREET 595-1/6/359 (North West side) 18/07/55 No.4 GV II Small town house, now forming part of office with No.2 (qv). Mid C18 altered. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof ridge parallel with front. Semi-basement and 2 storeys; double fronted. 2 replaced 6-pane casements to semi-basement. 9 stone steps with simple iron railings on half-arch of brick to stone landing before entrance with door of 6 fielded panels in good panelled case with quasi-Ionic fluted pilasters, architrave, pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice; pediment with cockle-shell between 2 winged putti-heads on tympanum. 2-course floor-band; two 12-pane flush sashes. 3-course second storey floorband; two 12-pane flush sashes. All sashes have gauged brick heads; no sills. Brick parapet with simple stone coping. The west end has a replaced 6-pane casement to the basement and a small inserted small-pane fixed light to the second storey. The rear is altered. Listing NGR: SJ4062265860