Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE PARK STREET 595-1/4/331 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.6-16 (Even) The Nine Houses (of which six survive) (Formerly Listed as: PARK STREET Nos.6-16 (Even))
GV II
Row of 6 cottages, probably formerly almshouses. c1650, repaired and renovated 1968-9. Stone-dressed brick, brick-nogged and plaster-panelled small framing, brick to rear and grey slate roofs with 6 jettied front gables. 2 storeys, each cottage of one bay. One-course sandstone plinth; oak boarded doors in stone-dressed openings with Tudor-arched lintels; a 12-pane horizontally-sliding sash to each cottage; an oak console at each end of each cottage carries a chevron-banded bressumer. The framing to the second storey has heavy bay-posts and altered small framing to accommodate a replaced central horned 16-pane sash to each cottage; the side-panels have a substantial intermediate rail; the broad central panel to each cottage, formerly 2 panels, has a light sill-rail. 4 oak brackets per cottage carry the jettied bressumers to the small-framed gables. Replaced bargeboards and finials. A brick chimney towards the rear of each. The south end is of old brick, the rear is rebuilt. INTERIORS not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4075266078
Content
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1261 IOE Records taken by Brian Lomas; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Rights
© Mr Brian Lomas. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
People & Organisations
Photographer: Lomas, Brian
Rights Holder: Lomas, Brian
Keywords
Brick, Plaster, Sandstone, Slate, Stone, Tudor Jettied House, Elizabethan Monument (By Form), Stuart Jettied Building, Jacobean Timber Framed Building, Timber Framed House, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Row, Multiple Dwelling, Row House, Almshouse, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Health And Welfare, Residential Building