Building record 5739 - No.19 High Street, Northwich

<1> Vale Royal Borough Council, 2006, Vale Royal Borough Council's List of Locally Important Buildings (Report). SCH5487.

Criteria A: Unlisted timber framed buildings in Vale Royal which contain structural or building techniques which were designed to reduce the effects of subsidence.

<2> Vale Royal Borough Council, 1977-79, The Vale Royal Borough Council Historic Buildings Survey Index Card, NCH/HB 185 (Paper Archive). SCH5481.

A late nineteenth century brick faced timber framed building. Arcaded façade in fine bricks with a phoenix rising from the flames carved in stone tablet on front gable. Two brick string courses, slightly projecting, three tier sash windows with labels and labelling round blind arcades above the windows. Flat topped gable parapet with small half hipped roof behind.

Plans drawn up in 1955 mentions a barrel drop being filled in. Early twentieth century maps show a building on this site to have been a public house called 'The Eagle and Child'. There is a brick/terracotta moulding of an eagle on the top of the façade. This suggests that this actual building was a pub at one time. It was also Heaths Market before it became a bank.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1876, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Northwich (Maps and Plans). SCH4488.

This building is labelled as the Eagle and Child public house.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6573, 1910 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

Depicted as a public house.

<5> Cheshire Archives & Local Studies, Chester History & Heritage and Cheshire Libraries, Various, Cheshire Image Bank, c06403, c06413, c07531 & c07538 (Web Site). SCH8053.

Photographs of the exterior of the building dating from 1891. Pub closed in 1939.