Description

SJ4065
1932-1/8/207
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
OVERLEIGH ROAD
(North West side)

Nos.26, 28 AND 30

(Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Nos.26-40 (Even))

II

GV

Row of 3 estate cottages. 1896. By John Douglas. For the first
Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red
brick with brown clay tile roof.
2 storey 1-bay cottages. Framed and boarded doors in sandstone
cases with moulded arrises to flush quoins and lintels; doors
to Nos 26 and 28 are paired; that to No.30 adjoins left end; a
small 2-pane window to side of each door; a mullioned casement
of three 3-pane metal lights to each front parlour. Moulded
sandstone cyma band beneath slightly projecting first floor;
band of diapering; mullioned casements of two 3-pane lights
under stone dormer-gables; datestone 18:W:96; ridge chimney
and right gable chimney. Ground floor of left end of No.30, on
street corner, has canted corner, corbelled in stone to square
corner of first floor.
The rear is simply expressed, with walled yards and offices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 267).

Listing NGR: SJ 40567 65318

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656589

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)