RICHMOND PLACE

RICHMOND PLACE, 125 AND 127, BOUGHTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375699
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: RICHMOND PLACE
Statutory Address:: RICHMOND PLACE, 125 AND 127, BOUGHTON

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Date:: 2001-04-12
Reference:: IOE01/05827/14
Rights:: © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375699
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: RICHMOND PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: RICHMOND PLACE, 125 AND 127, BOUGHTON

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RICHMOND PLACE, 125 AND 127, BOUGHTON

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 41751 66493

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 BOUGHTON 1932-1/6/14 (North side) 28/07/55 Nos.125 AND 127 Richmond Place

GV II

Pair of town houses, later offices. Early C19 altered internally. Flemish bond brown brick; stucco; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 windows. Ionic stone verandah has a pair of columns between each window-bay and one column to each side of the narrower entrance-bay at each end, all on a 3-step stylobate; replaced railings, simplified. Stucco ground floor with pilasters to entrance bays; door to right of 6 fielded panels, to left altered to a 2 fielded panels, 2 glazed panels and simple overlight; 4 recessed 12-pane sashes. Entablature to verandah has frieze, cornice and parapet of stone with panels of 11;12;12;11 vase balusters; 4 full-height 15-pane sashes with cornices beneath brick tympani of round-ended sills and slightly cambered gauged brick heads; stone cornice with vase finials; a central ridge chimney. Added bay, left, with no features of special note. The rear has an altered rear wing of 2 low storeys with some horizontally-sliding sashes, painted stone sills. Rear of main block displays 2 recessed 16-pane ground-floor sashes, two 12-pane first floor sashes and four of 9 panes to second floor with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads; a lead rainwater pipe and head. INTERIOR altered post 1972. Original open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, turned newel, moulded cast-iron balusters and swept rail. Panelled embrasures; door architraves; a few C19 doors including shaped pair in Tudor-arched opening between main block and left wing; one or two early C19 fireplace surrounds; some plaster cornices; moulded plaster ceiling to a first-floor front room.

Listing NGR: SJ4175166493

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Legacy System number:: 469678
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.