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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Date:: 2002-01-28
Reference:: IOE01/07252/33
Rights:: © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 469957
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 166, 259

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.