26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD
26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375883
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375883
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH 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:
- 26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH 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:
- SJ4056765318
Details
SJ4065
1932-1/8/207
10/01/72
CHESTER CITY (EM)
OVERLEIGH ROAD
(North West side)
Nos.26, 28 AND 30
(Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Nos.26-40 (Even))
II
GV
Row of 3 estate cottages. 1896. By John Douglas. For the first
Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red
brick with brown clay tile roof.
2 storey 1-bay cottages. Framed and boarded doors in sandstone
cases with moulded arrises to flush quoins and lintels; doors
to Nos 26 and 28 are paired; that to No.30 adjoins left end; a
small 2-pane window to side of each door; a mullioned casement
of three 3-pane metal lights to each front parlour. Moulded
sandstone cyma band beneath slightly projecting first floor;
band of diapering; mullioned casements of two 3-pane lights
under stone dormer-gables; datestone 18:W:96; ridge chimney
and right gable chimney. Ground floor of left end of No.30, on
street corner, has canted corner, corbelled in stone to square
corner of first floor.
The rear is simply expressed, with walled yards and offices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 267).
Listing NGR: SJ 40567 65318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 267
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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