1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375878
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375878
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
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:
- 1-7, LUMLEY PLACE
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:
- SJ4085766223
Details
SJ4066
1932-1/6/196
10/01/72
CHESTER CITY (EM)
LUMLEY PLACE
(North side)
Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)
II
GV
Row of 7 almshouses for retired clergy. c1870. Attributed to
John Douglas but varies from his normal manner. for the first
Duke of Westminster. Red-brown and yellow brick; grey slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with first floor partly in roof. Boarded
doors with moulded vertical cover-strips in camber-arched
openings, opening into recessed porches; a casement of 5 iron
lights to each dwelling, with brick mullions and cambered
arches. A brick pilaster between each cottage and at ends;
brick sillband and band above openings. Corbelled first-floor
band below a 7-course band with projecting brown-header
lattice and yellow-brick lozenge panels; 2 casements of
round-arched lights with brick mullions, one of 3 lights, the
other 2 lights, to each cottage; patterned leaded glazing in
the arches. A cottage-width front gable to Nos 1 and 7; a
dormer gable above the pair of casements to each intermediate
cottage. Terracotta panels in gables, yellow-buff, with
incised fleur-de-lys, roses, pies and portcullises. Shaped
purlin-ends. 3 ridge chimneys and a lateral chimney at left
end. The rear has no individual features of special interest.
INTERIORS not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ 40857 66223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469857
- 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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