House of Shelter
HOUSE OF SHELTER, 4, VICARS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375976
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- House of Shelter
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE OF SHELTER, 4, VICARS LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07252/33
- Rights:
- © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375976
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- House of Shelter
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE OF SHELTER, 4, VICARS LANE
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:
- HOUSE OF SHELTER, 4, VICARS LANE
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 40914 66215
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 VICARS LANE 1932-1/6/288 (North side) No.4 House of Shelter
GV II
Almshouse now land agent's office. 1889-90. By John Douglas. For the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed red brick, blue diapering; red tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, almost symmetrical. One stone step to framed and boarded door on wrought-iron hinges in basket-arched stone-dressed opening; similarly detailed adjoining opening, left, contains a mullioned 2-light leaded casement, the arch dated 1889; a mullioned and transomed 3-light leaded casement left and right. The first floor has a stone band rising 3 courses above the door and central window; 3 stone-dressed cross-casements in slightly projecting stone cases with blank tracery in round arches, beneath gabled half-dormers with shaped copings and finials. A plinthed chimney with 3 separated barleysugar flues of moulded brick on each end gable. The right end is simply detailed, as is the rear. INTERIOR not inspected. (Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 166; 259).
Listing NGR: SJ4091666220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469957
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 166, 259
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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