Description

SJ4165
1932-1/8/252

CHESTER CITY (EM)
ST JOHN'S ROAD
(West side)

Nos.4 AND 6

II

GV

Pair of suburban houses. c1850. Probably by James Harrison.
Orange-brown brick with grey slate roofs.
2 storeys; handed with a projecting bay to each side of a pair
of central bays; a small 2-storey porch bay deeply recessed at
each end. No.6 left has pointed-arched door of 2 rows of 3
panels in unaltered porch. Mullioned square 6-light bay window
with painted stone sill, plinthed corner-posts and transom in
form of St Andrew's crosses; three lancets with 3-pane sashes;
handed fenestration to No.4; hipped fishscale roofs to bay
windows have lead rolls; the porch to No.4 has been enclosed.
The first floor has 2 arched casements to each house with one
horizontal bar and tracery in the form of king post trusses;
front gables to end bays; a dormer gable over each inner
window. 3 ridge chimneys with separated flues. Each end has
two 2-pane windows to ground floor behind the porch and a
2-pane Y-tracery window to first floor.
INTERIOR: No.6 has a curved open-well open-string
stick-baluster stair and 4-panel doors with stop-chamfered
stiles and rails. No.4 not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 41130 65738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656627

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)