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2-20, Dorfold Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Crewe, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.097 / 53°5'49"N

Longitude: -2.4422 / 2°26'31"W

OS Eastings: 370489

OS Northings: 355629

OS Grid: SJ704556

Mapcode National: GBR 7X.8TJ7

Mapcode Global: WH9B5.GF92

Plus Code: 9C5V3HW5+R4

Entry Name: 2-20, Dorfold Street

Listing Date: 29 March 1976

Last Amended: 14 June 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1262896

English Heritage Legacy ID: 433781

ID on this website: 101262896

Location: Crewe, Cheshire East, Cheshire, CW1

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Crewe

Built-Up Area: Crewe

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Crewe St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE DORFOLD STREET

2/43 Nos.2 to 20 (even)
[formerly listed as Nos 2 to 24
29.3.76 (even)]

GV II

Terrace of 10 cottages, circa 1848, by John Cunningham, as part of
Engineer Joseph Locke's original layout for the Grand Junction Railway
Company; now private dwellings. Brown brick with slate roofs. 2
storeys, 2 bays each, off stone plinth. Built handed in pairs with
Tudor arched entrance porches on either side of projecting gable.
Original entrance doors replaced by multi-panel doors. Single light
casements in porch gables, two-light horizontally sliding sashes
elsewhere, all have stone sills and flat chamfered arches. Small
blank sunken panel, with chamfered surround, in porch gable apex and
slightly shaped narrow barge board. Eaves gutter on moulded fascia,
lead valleys, four-flue party wall stacks and blue tile ridges.
Nos.1 to 19 (odd) Dorfold Street, Nos.1 to 19 (odd) and 2 to 20 (even)
Betley Street, and Nos.1 to 9 (consecutive) Tollitt Street (q.q.v.)
were built as part of the same development.


Listing NGR: SJ7048955629

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