Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

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

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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

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