Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 CHRISTLETON ROAD
1932-1/6/45 (North side)
10/01/72 Nos.1, 3 AND 5

II

Includes: No.2A TARVIN ROAD.
4 shops and living accommodation. 1898-1900. By John Douglas
as architect and owner. Squared snecked red sandstone rubble,
timber framing with plaster panels and Ruabon red brick;
grey-green slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to the prominent, acute, street corner;
2-storey wing to Christleton Road and, shorter, to Tarvin
Road. The 3 elements are described separately.
3-storey block: 5 faces, with canted end to street corner.
Stone ground floor with shop window to end and right oblique
face; shorter window in moulded case to left; part-glazed
Douglas door in stone case and 3-light mullioned window right;
round stone-dressed red-brick stair turret, left, with framed
and boarded door. Jettied timber-framed first floor has 2
rails, baluster posts, mullioned windows, upper lights leaded,
then panels between brackets to second floor jetty. The second
floor has herringbone strutting and 3 gabled 2-light
part-leaded dormers in roof forming short octagonal spire with
lead finial and weather-vane. The stair-turret has loops and a
conical spire with lead finial.
The projecting 2-storey wing to Christleton Road, right, has
three C20 replaced shop windows, only the stone piers visible
of the original design. The first floor has a row of
herringbone-strutted small framing beneath a continuous range
of mullioned partly leaded glazing including a 6-light
round-ended oriel; 2 small-framed gables with quadrant braces.
The projecting left wing to Tarvin Road has replaced
shop-front, first floor with herringbone-strutted small
framing, mullioned windows including a 7-light canted oriel,
and leaded glazing partly removed. A herringbone-strutted
gable facing right and a large quadrant-braced gable to the
street, both jettied; carved tiebeams; bargeboards; double
loading doors at first floor level to yard; shaped red brick
chimneys.
An enterprising street-corner composition by the most
influential of Chester's late C19 architects.
Building vacant or in partial use at time of survey (1992).
(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 14.9.1898; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas:
London: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SJ4190166443

Selected Sources

• Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013)

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