78-80, CHESTER ROAD
78-80, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130333
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 78-80, CHESTER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 78-80, CHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130333
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 78-80, CHESTER ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78-80, CHESTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 78-80, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 36364 78050
Details
ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON CHESTER ROAD SJ 37 NE (west side) 2/1 No 78-80 (even) GV II c.1830s symmetrical pair of stuccoed villa houses. Grey Welsh slate roof to No 78; roof of No 80 renewed in concrete tiles. Main roofs hipped; pediment gables to front. 3-sided bays to front. 3-sided bays to front dining rooms. Moulded stucco architraves to windows, some with round-headed arches and stucco keystones. Principal windows have double hung Georgian type recessed sashes; some glazing bars removed. Rectangular stuccoed chimneys. Wide entrance doors with 2 vertical panels. The character of No 78 is intact; No 80 altered at rear with modern windows in altered openings. Interior of No 78 has open string staircase with mahogany handrail and painted square balusters; folding panelled internal shutters to hall and front windows; simple moulded plaster cornices to hall, dining room and breakfast room; 4 panel internal doors; cel- lar with brick floor. Interior of No 80 modernised.
Listing NGR: SJ3940575222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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