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26, 28 and 30, Overleigh Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1816 / 53°10'53"N

Longitude: -2.8908 / 2°53'26"W

OS Eastings: 340567

OS Northings: 365318

OS Grid: SJ405653

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3D9S

Mapcode Global: WH88F.K9N7

Plus Code: 9C5V54J5+MM

Entry Name: 26, 28 and 30, Overleigh Road

Listing Date: 10 January 1972

Last Amended: 23 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375883

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469862

ID on this website: 101375883

Location: Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Chester

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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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

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