Shipgate Street

Shipgate House
Shipgate House forms offices together as 2-4 Shipgate street. Number 2 is a late 17thC house, refronted in the mide 18thC in brick with stone dressings and an external staircase. The interior retains many late 17thC features in the forms of walls and floors and an open-well oak staircase. In 1963 the house and the adjoining cottage were bought by Cheshire County Council with a view to demolishing them and building an extension to County Hall. However this was successfully opposed by the Chester Civic Trust. The house was substantially restored between 1971 and 1974. Number 4 Shipgate street is a mid 18thC two-storey house. Both properties have a semi-basement. The basement is constructed in coursed sandstone, and probably dates from the 17th century.

6, Shipgate st
Number 6 is a small town house, c1860. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. Cellar, 2 storeys and attic; 2 bays. Rusticated 2-course sandstone plinth, probably older than the house, with cellar vent.

8-10 Shipgate Street
Numbers 8 and 10 are two cottages, c1800, re-ordered internally and to rear in the 1970s. English garden wall bond brown brick with grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. Cellar and 3 storeys, each cottage of one bay. 2 steps to each door, those to No.8 repaired.

12a Shipgate Street
Number 12a is a town house, now partly converted to flats. Probably later C18 but altered c1970. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof hipped at south-west end. 3 storeys, double-fronted; the end faces St Mary's Hill.