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Latitude: 53.1898 / 53°11'23"N
Longitude: -2.8866 / 2°53'11"W
OS Eastings: 340857
OS Northings: 366223
OS Grid: SJ408662
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.31B4
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M2MY
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q7+W9
Entry Name: 1-7, Lumley Place
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375878
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469857
ID on this website: 101375878
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Almshouse
SJ4066
1932-1/6/196
10/01/72
CHESTER CITY (EM)
LUMLEY PLACE
(North side)
Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)
II
GV
Row of 7 almshouses for retired clergy. c1870. Attributed to
John Douglas but varies from his normal manner. for the first
Duke of Westminster. Red-brown and yellow brick; grey slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with first floor partly in roof. Boarded
doors with moulded vertical cover-strips in camber-arched
openings, opening into recessed porches; a casement of 5 iron
lights to each dwelling, with brick mullions and cambered
arches. A brick pilaster between each cottage and at ends;
brick sillband and band above openings. Corbelled first-floor
band below a 7-course band with projecting brown-header
lattice and yellow-brick lozenge panels; 2 casements of
round-arched lights with brick mullions, one of 3 lights, the
other 2 lights, to each cottage; patterned leaded glazing in
the arches. A cottage-width front gable to Nos 1 and 7; a
dormer gable above the pair of casements to each intermediate
cottage. Terracotta panels in gables, yellow-buff, with
incised fleur-de-lys, roses, pies and portcullises. Shaped
purlin-ends. 3 ridge chimneys and a lateral chimney at left
end. The rear has no individual features of special interest.
INTERIORS not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ 40857 66223
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