Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 LITTLE ST JOHN STREET
1932-1/6/186 (North side)
Chester Visitor Centre

GV II

St John's School, now Chester Visitor Centre. Founded 1810 by
Robert Earl Grosvenor, rebuilt 1882-3 by his grandson ER
Robson for the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed hard
red brick; hipped red-brown tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: expressed as 3 storeys plus attic to front, facing
St John's Church (qv), reducing the apparent scale, but 2
storeys plus attic to sides and rear. The front has unpierced
end bays, each with a round-arched recessed panel with
armorial device of stone, Grosvenor Arms and "W" to left and 3
mitres and 1883, right. The ground floor has 4 round-arched
openings holding 2 stone cross-windows between 2 pairs of
boarded double doors with dual overlights. Stone stringcourse
beneath 4 pairs of 6-pane casements alternating with recessed
stone panels; a stone apron below each end-panel holds a
square 4-pane light. The second floor has a similar stone
window-band, with slightly varied rhythm of casements and
panels. 2 stone-dressed shaped attic gables, each with two
6-pane casements. Timber hexagonal belfry on ridge has
cupola-roof, louvre band, lead finial, wind-vane.
The sides and back are similarly expressed, but with simpler
brick openings to tall classroom windows; dormer gables
similar to those at front.
INTERIOR: the structure is little altered but almost all
surfaces are covered in mock timber framing.

Listing NGR: SJ4088466202

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656571

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014