Edward VII statue on a building on Northgate Street, Chester (photo)

This Grade II* listed building is more complex than the others, consisting of shops, offices and a public house, and with one face overlooking Northgate Street and the other overlooking Town Hall Square. The public house dates probably from the early 19th century, and the rest of the building was re-fronted by John Douglas in 1902. The building as a whole is constructed in three storeys with a small attic and cellars. The Northgate Street face has a three-bay arcade on the street level. In the niches above the capitals of the columns supporting the arcade are carvings of figures; those facing the street are in Elizabethan costume playing instruments, while the two figures at the corner of the two faces are carrying scrolls. The middle storey of the face is jettied. It has a two-light mullioned and transomed casement window in number 29, and a four-light oriel window in number 31. At the corner of the building is a half-size painted effigy of Edward VII.