Chester City Club is at 1 Northgate Street,
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building.
History
The newsroom was built in 1807, to a design by
Thomas Harrison.
[ It opened the following year as the Commercial Coffee Room.][
]
Architecture
The building is constructed in yellow ashlar
Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...
stone on the front, and brown brick on the sides and rear.[ Its architectural style is Greek Revival.][ The building is expressed as two storeys at the front, and three at the back. On the front facing Northgate Street the lower storey consists of a rusticated three-]bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
arcade, set behind which are modern shop fronts. In the upper storey are four Ionic pilasters dividing it into three bays, each of which contains a 24-pane sash window
A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes". The individual sashes are traditionally paned window (architecture), paned windows, but can now contain an individual sheet (or sheets, in the case of double gla ...
. At the top of the building is a pediment above an architrave
In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns.
The term can ...
and a frieze.[ On each side of the building, to the north and the south, are passages leading St Peter's Churchyard.][ The rear of the building contains the original entrance to the club.][
]
See also
* Grade II listed buildings in Chester (central)
*List of works by Thomas Harrison
Thomas Harrison was an English architect who flourished in the last two decades of the 18th century and the first three decades of the 19th century. Little is known of his early life, and his precise date of birth is not known. He wa ...
References
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External links
Club website
Grade II listed buildings in Chester
Buildings and structures in Chester
Buildings and structures completed in 1807
Neoclassical architecture in Cheshire
Gentlemen's clubs in England
Organisations based in Cheshire
Thomas Harrison buildings