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Latitude: 53.1879 / 53°11'16"N
Longitude: -2.8887 / 2°53'19"W
OS Eastings: 340715
OS Northings: 366014
OS Grid: SJ407660
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.30V5
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L4NF
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q6+5G
Entry Name: Albion Mews
Listing Date: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376042
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470028
Also known as: Volunteer Street drill hall, Chester
ID on this website: 101376042
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: Drill hall Apartment building
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE ALBION STREET
595-1/4/26 (South side)
Albion Mews
GV II
Drill hall. 1868. By James Harrison, built from public
subscriptions. Converted to flats mid C20. Stone-dressed
brick, largely painted, with grey slate roof.
2 storeys plus added recessed Mansard-roofed attic; 3 storey
gatehouse tower at east end has red sandstone archway with
moulded arrises to jambs and double-chamfered voussoirs;
battered buttresses; a 2m brick plinth to west wing, now
rendered; a rectangular loop and 3 stone cross-windows to the
first storey. 3 recessed panels with blank shields, a stone
cross-window with pointed upper lights and a quatrefoil in a
recessed stone circlet above the archway. The second storey
has a 1-light transomed stone window and 3 cross-windows with
shouldered arch, pointed arch and shouldered arch to upper
lights. The crenellated parapet to the west wing has a small
square turret at the west corner with machicolated crenels.
The third storey of the gatehouse has a 2-light mullioned
window, a crenellated parapet and a corner turret with
machicolated crenels.
Gatehouse archway has double cross-boarded doors. The east
side is English garden wall bond.
INTERIOR rebuilt.
Listing NGR: SJ4071566014
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