Bear and Billet

Bear and Billet
Bear and Billet
Location94 Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England
Coordinates53°11′11″N 2°53′23″W / 53.1863°N 2.8896°W / 53.1863; -2.8896
OS grid referenceSJ 406 658
Built1664
Built forEarls of Shrewsbury
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameNo.94 Bear & Billet Public House
Designated28 July 1955
Reference no.470313
Bear and Billet is located in Cheshire
Bear and Billet
Location in Cheshire

The Bear and Billet is a public house at 94 Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1] The building has been described as "the finest 17th-century timber-framed town house in Chester"[2] and "one of the last of the great timber-framed town houses in England".[3] It stands on the west side of Lower Bridge Street to the north of the Bridgegate.[4]

  1. ^ Historic England, "Bear and Billet Public House, Chester (1376318)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 22 March 2015
  2. ^ Bear and Billet, Chester City Council, archived from the original on 21 July 2006, retrieved 29 June 2009
  3. ^ Morriss, Richard (1993), The Buildings of Chester, Dover: Alan Sutton, p. 24, ISBN 0-7509-0255-8
  4. ^ Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Streetmap, archived from the original on 2 April 2015, retrieved 16 February 2011