THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES

THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330300
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-05
Reference:: IOE01/01700/03
Rights:: © Mr Michael L Reed. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330300
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Statutory Address:: THE FLAGGS AND HAMILTON HOUSE, AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND GATES, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tarvin
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49127 66999

Details

SJ 46 NE TARVIN C.P. CHURCH STREET (East Side)

2/48 The Flaggs and Hamilton House, and front garden walls and gates. 22/10/1952

GV II*

Pair of houses: dated 1756 on rainhead, later extensions to rear. Flemish bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and 3 brick chimneys. Single-pile plan. 3-storey, symmetrical 8-bay front. Stone plinth with access to cellars. Rusticated stone quoins, moulded cornice and plain blocking course. Windows are 12-pane sashes, ground floor recessed, remainder cased and flush, top storeys 6-pane sashes. These have rusticated stone heads with raised keyblocks (moulded over the doors) and stone sills. 3rd and 6th bays have moulded wooden doorcases with panelled reveals. To the left is a segmental pediment, to the right a triangular one. These contain 6-panelled doors approached by 2 stone steps. The houses are divided by a central drainpipe with 1756 on the rainhead. The small front gardens have low brick walls with chamfered stone copings and simple iron railings. Each house has a gateway with square piers and capstones and small wrought iron gates. Interior: Hamilton House: entry into narrow hall with semi-circular archway with raised keyblock and imposts. Only 2 main rooms with staircase to rear. Drawing room has an original fireplace with rilled pilasters and a simple frieze containing a modern grate. Dogleg stair with square newels has crisscross balustrade in manner of Chinese Chippendale staircases. Many of the doors are of 2 fielded panels in simple surrounds, with some later 4 and 6-panelled doors. Extensive cellars.

The Flaggs: hall has segmental arch on fluted pilasters. Main room has bold egg and dart moulded cornice, fluted centre, and C18 fireplace from Tarvin Hall. Room to right less ornate cornice. Openwell pine staircase has 3 column balusters per tread, column newels and curving handrail. Carved acanthus on open string. Moulded cornices in upper rooms, one with moulded beams. Later 4-panelled doors below, doors and cupboards with 2 fielded panels in top storey.

Dr A Gomme (unpublished) shows the very close comparison of this pair with the north side of Abbey Square, Chester, which are contemporary though a little grander. He believes they were built by the same lessee, Taylor.

Listing NGR: SJ4912367002

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Legacy System number:: 55752
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.