1, QUEENS PARK ROAD, 1-19, HANDBRIDGE, 2-8, MILL STREET
1, QUEENS PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375845
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 1, QUEENS PARK ROAD, 1-19, HANDBRIDGE, 2-8, MILL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, QUEENS PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375845
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 1, QUEENS PARK ROAD, 1-19, HANDBRIDGE, 2-8, MILL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 1-19, HANDBRIDGE
- Statutory Address 3:
- 2-8, MILL STREET
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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, QUEENS PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 1-19, HANDBRIDGE
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8, MILL STREET
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:
- SJ4076865645
Details
SJ 4065
1932-1/8/170
CHESTER CITY (EM),
HANDBRIDGE (East side),
Nos. 1-19 (Odd)
23.07.1998
GV II
Includes: No.1 QUEEN'S PARK ROAD
Includes: Nos. 2-8 MILL STREET
12 shops, a flat over each, one cottage facing corner of Handbridge with Queen's Park Road, right, and 4 cottages to Mill Street, left. 1928-32. By Greenwood, City Engineer. For Chester City Council. Brick shaped and surfaced to simulate red sandstone, timber framing with plaster panels; roof of grey-green and buff slates. Late Vernacular Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The composition comprises a symmetrical range of 4 "stone-brick" cottages facing the Dee across Mill Street, a projecting and jettied gabled shop and flat on the angle with Handbridge, 10 shops with flats above facing handbridge, a projecting and jettied gabled shop and flat at the angle with Queen's Park Road, all with "stone-brick" shops and timber-framed flats; a "stone-brick" cottage towards Queen's Park Road. Oak shopfronts with half-glazed Tudor-arched recessed doors with shaped overlights; paired entrances to flats, each with one step, framed and boarded door on ornate hinges and Tudor archway of "Stone-brick". The upper storey, punctuated with 4 jet tied gables, has rail at sill-level, close studding and casements of 12-pane lights. The roof steps down with slope of street, a plinthed ridge chimney at each step.
INTERIORS: not inspected. The cottages form successful end-stops in a low-key C17 manner to a well-handled composition in a key position adjacent to the Old Dee Bridge.
Included as an excellent example of inter-war municipal town planning, the shops and cottages replaced older shops and condemned dwellings including court-cottages.
Listing NGR: SJ 40768 65645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469824
- 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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