Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW COMMONHALL STREET
595-1/3/141 (North side)
02/08/93 Nos.24 AND 26

GV II

Handed pair of cottages. 1889. By TM Lockwood. For staff of
Browns of Chester department store, probably at the expense of
Charles Brown. Flemish bond brown brick with moulded hard red
brick dressings; red clay tile roof.
2 storeys. Plinth and moulded upper storey band. Each cottage
has a framed and boarded door, part glazed, and a mullioned
casement of 3 arched metal 3-pane lights in the lower storey;
the door of No.26 is angled, at the corner with Old Hall
Place, the upper storey providing a triangular canopy on
timber brackets; the upper storey of each cottage has a timber
oriel of three 8-pane lights under a timber-framed dormer
gable; a shaped brick central ridge chimney. The gable-end of
No.26 to Old Hall Place has a mullioned window of two 3-pane
metal lights to each storey; the gabled rear wing has a framed
and boarded back door with an overlight protected by a
scrolled wrought-iron screen. Rear offices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council:
17/7/1889).

Listing NGR: SJ4044166184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656809

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)