The Hermitage
THE HERMITAGE, THE GROVES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1375947
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, THE GROVES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1375947
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HERMITAGE, THE GROVES
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, THE GROVES
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:
- SJ4095066064
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 THE GROVES
1932-1/6/149 (North side)
28/07/55 The Hermitage
GV II*
Probably anchorite's cell to which a friar was formally
inducted, now a cottage. 1363. Eroded vertical-sided bedrock
plinth up to 2.5m high; coursed partly snecked sandstone; grey
slate roof.
The entrance front north was porch of former St Martin's
Church (not included), re-erected here 1897-8 by TRP Royle on
a segmental-arched bridge from adjacent higher ground: the
arch has colonnette-jambs; trefoils in spandrels; triple
lancets in right side; 2-light mullioned casement right of
porch; projecting stone chimney right; the first floor has a
lancet right, a triple lancet in an inserted or renewed ashlar
panel above porch; voussoirs of a blocked arch partly behind
chimney. The east end has a replaced window in
segmental-arched opening to ground floor; a mullioned 3-light
arched window with intersecting tracery to first floor; coped
gable. The west end has a small high-level segmental-arched
window to ground floor; buttress at south-west corner; coped
gable with gabled finial. The rear, south, has some
rectangular recesses in the plinth, a central lancet to stair
and 2 lancets to first floor. All glazing is replaced. The
cottage was refurbished c1970, probably by James Brotherhood.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Building vacant at time of survey (June 1992).
(Cheshire SMR: Collens J: Chester City: 1988-: 3008/1/6;
Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 17.11.1897, 5.1.1898).
Listing NGR: SJ4095066064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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