Chester City Club is at 1 Northgate Street,
Chester,
Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II
listed building
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.
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 stone on the front, and brown brick on the sides and rear.[ Its architectural style is ]Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
.[ 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 ]arcade
Arcade most often refers to:
* Arcade game, a coin-operated game machine
** Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade game's hardware
** Arcade system board, a standardized printed circuit board
* Amusement arcade, a place with arcade games
* ...
, set behind which are modern shop fronts. In the upper storey are four Ionic pilaster
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wal ...
s dividing it into three bays, each of which contains a 24-pane sash window. At the top of the building is a pediment
Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape.
Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds.
A pedim ...
above an architrave and a frieze
In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...
.[ 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)
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England containing over 650 structures that are designated as listed buildings by English Heritage and included in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, over 500 are listed at Grade II, the ...
*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