Booth Mansion, Chester

Booth Mansion is a former town house at 28–34 Watergate Street in Chester. In 1700 George Booth rebuilt two medieval houses as his town house. He built a frontage in Georgian style, but behind this much of the medieval fabric was retained. The frontage was angled into the street so that the house could be seen better from Chester Cross. In the 1740s and 1750s the building was used as the assembly rooms for the town's social functions. Subsequently it has been used as an auction gallery and, as of 2010, houses a firm of solicitors.

The frontage is built in brick with stone quoins. Behind the frontage is medieval stonework and timber; the roof is of grey slates. At the street level are shop fronts and doorways between nine stone piers. At the Row level, overlooking the street, are three piers and six Tuscan columns.