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SJ46NW
1932-1/2/61

CHESTER CITY (EM)
DEE BANKS (East side)
Nos 31 (Beauford Lodge) and 33 (Douglas House) and front garden walls and gate piers

(Formerly listed as Nos.31 AND 33 Beauford Lodge (No.31) and front garden walls and gate piers)

II

10/01/72

Handed pair of houses. 1869. By John Douglas, No.33 as his own home, 1869-1892, with minor alterations c1945. Brown brick with blue brick diapering and a little stone dressing; grey-green slate roof.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys, each house of three bays; composed as a pair of projecting front-gabled central bays, with a two-bay wing to each side, outer bays punctuated with an attic-dormer gable. Blue-brick capped plinth; a tripartite 2;2;2-pane stone-mullioned sash, left; hip-roofed porch and small conservatory, the latter projecting beyond the porch, all timber-framed, with leaded three-light mullioned-and-transomed window in left side, door with leaded "cross-window" glazing, one transomed light window to each side of conservatory and a four-light ditto to front; the glazing of No.33 mirrors No.31. The brickwork is diapered between ground floor and first floor windows. The first floor of No.31 has a five-faced oriel added c1945, reasonably harmonious; triple small two-pane lancet sashes over porch; a pair of pointed-arched two-pane sashes with stone mullion, circular panel above inscribed JD; a blue-brick relieving arch above the two sashes and panel; the fenestration to No.33 mirrors No.31 except that the panel has intertwined V and A and the pair of two-pane arched sashes in the end bay is unaltered. Each dormer-gable has a miniature one-pane window to cockloft, each front gable a pair of arched miniature windows with a blank recessed arched panel to each side. A pair of substantial shaped central chimneys, one before, the other behind the ridge; a projecting chimney with plinth and shaped flues on each gable.

The rear is simply detailed; two hipped lucarnes.

INTERIOR: No.31 has most detail intact; doors with frames typical of Douglas; stair with shaped splat balusters; frieze in right front room downstairs. The interior of No.33 is probably similarly maintained, but Douglas did not repeat the frieze of No.31 for his own house.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden walls are sandstone with flush steeply-weathered copings; square gate piers diminishing beneath octagonal finials.

(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: 1991-: 5-6, 56-58, 80).

Listing NGR: SJ 42045 65770

External Links

• 31 and 33 Dee Banks, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4634791

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