1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD, 2A, TARVIN ROAD
1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375744
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD, 2A, TARVIN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/07253/22
- Rights:
- © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375744
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD, 2A, TARVIN ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2A, TARVIN 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:
- 1, 3 AND 5, CHRISTLETON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2A, TARVIN 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 41901 66443
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 CHRISTLETON ROAD 1932-1/6/45 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.1, 3 AND 5
II
Includes: No.2A TARVIN ROAD. 4 shops and living accommodation. 1898-1900. By John Douglas as architect and owner. Squared snecked red sandstone rubble, timber framing with plaster panels and Ruabon red brick; grey-green slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to the prominent, acute, street corner; 2-storey wing to Christleton Road and, shorter, to Tarvin Road. The 3 elements are described separately. 3-storey block: 5 faces, with canted end to street corner. Stone ground floor with shop window to end and right oblique face; shorter window in moulded case to left; part-glazed Douglas door in stone case and 3-light mullioned window right; round stone-dressed red-brick stair turret, left, with framed and boarded door. Jettied timber-framed first floor has 2 rails, baluster posts, mullioned windows, upper lights leaded, then panels between brackets to second floor jetty. The second floor has herringbone strutting and 3 gabled 2-light part-leaded dormers in roof forming short octagonal spire with lead finial and weather-vane. The stair-turret has loops and a conical spire with lead finial. The projecting 2-storey wing to Christleton Road, right, has three C20 replaced shop windows, only the stone piers visible of the original design. The first floor has a row of herringbone-strutted small framing beneath a continuous range of mullioned partly leaded glazing including a 6-light round-ended oriel; 2 small-framed gables with quadrant braces. The projecting left wing to Tarvin Road has replaced shop-front, first floor with herringbone-strutted small framing, mullioned windows including a 7-light canted oriel, and leaded glazing partly removed. A herringbone-strutted gable facing right and a large quadrant-braced gable to the street, both jettied; carved tiebeams; bargeboards; double loading doors at first floor level to yard; shaped red brick chimneys. An enterprising street-corner composition by the most influential of Chester's late C19 architects. Building vacant or in partial use at time of survey (1992). (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 14.9.1898; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-).
Listing NGR: SJ4190166443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013)
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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