Building record 10757 - No 7 Grosvenor Street, former nurses hostel

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Summary

No 7 Grosvenor Street was built in 1898 as a home and centre for midwives, later a nurses home and a Women's Royal Voluntary Service office. It was designed by Douglas and Minshull in the Vernacular Revival style for the first Duke of Westminster for the Chester Benevolent Institution. The exterior is diapered stone dressed Ruabon red brick with a Westmorland green slate roof. The building is two and three storeys high and four bays wide. An arch to the front of the porch is inscribed W:1898.

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No 7 Grosvenor Street was built in 1898 as a home and centre for midwives, later a nurses home and a Women's Royal Voluntary Service office. It was designed by Douglas and Minshull in the Vernacular Revival style for the first Duke of Westminster for the Chester Benevolent Institution. The exterior is diapered stone dressed Ruabon red brick with a Westmorland green slate roof. The building is two and three storeys high and four bays wide. An arch to the front of the porch is inscribed W:1898. (1)


<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 470250 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

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  • <1> Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 470250.

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Grid reference Centred SJ 4053 6605 (20m by 16m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46NW
Civil Parish CHESTER NON PARISH AREA, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER
Historic Township/Parish/County CHESTER, CHESTER HOLY TRINITY, CHESHIRE

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Mar 21 2014 2:30PM