Description

SJ4066SW
595-1/3/329
02/08/93

CHESTER CITY (IM)
OLD HALL PLACE
(East side)

Nos.2-5 (Consecutive)

II

GV

Row of 4 cottages for staff of Browns of Chester Department
Store. c1889. By TM Lockwood 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 part-glazed framed and boarded door and a mullioned
casement of three 3-pane arched lights in the lower storey;
the doors of Nos 2 & 5 are angled at the corners of the row,
the upper storey providing triangular canopies on timber
brackets; the upper storey of each cottage has a timber oriel
of three 8-pane lights under a timber-framed dormer gable; 2
shaped brick ridge chimneys. The gable-ends have a mullioned
window of two 3-pane metal lights to the upper storey. Rear
offices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
The cottages form a group with Nos 24 & 26 Commonhall Street
(qv).
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB
17/7/1889).

Listing NGR: SJ 40430 66204

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656959

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