Tavenor Tower
TAVENOR TOWER, 7, LOWER PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tavenor Tower
- Statutory Address:
- TAVENOR TOWER, 7, LOWER PARK ROAD
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- 2001-07-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/03257/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tavenor Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAVENOR TOWER, 7, LOWER PARK 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:
- TAVENOR TOWER, 7, LOWER PARK 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 41223 66021
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 LOWER PARK ROAD 1932-1/6/193 (North side) 10/01/72 No.7 Tavenor Tower
GV II
Villa. c1850. Rendered with hipped grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 windows to main block; recessed left wing; pilasters to each floor of main block and between first and second bays; tripartite window of 4-pane lights with transoms; a 4-pane window in eared architrave; portico with pair of Ionic columns at each corner has 4-panel door with 1-pane fanlight in pilastered case with keystone to round arch; modillion entablature with balustrade; casement of two 4-pane lights in eared architrave. First floor stringcourse, pargeted frieze and sillband; 4 casements of two 3-pane lights in eared architraves; modillion cornice; 6 chimneys with arched panels, modillion cornices and old pots. The recessed left bay has banded rustication to the ground floor; a boarded door; a 4-pane sash to the first floor; mansard roof with 2-pane sash in a pediment-gable dormer with dentils. The north face to the Dee has projecting right wing with recessed 2-pane sashes; 3 ground-floor openings, sillband, 3 first floor sashes, eaves cornice, mansard roof with 3 pedimented dormers. Slender tower with loops at attic level, round-arched belvedere, dentil cornice, pyramidal roof. The left wing has casement by tower, tripartite casements, round-arched to first floor and a canted 2-storey bay window. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4122366021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469854
- 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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