24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376179
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04931/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376179
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
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:
- 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET
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 40441 66184
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW COMMONHALL STREET 595-1/3/141 (North side) 02/08/93 Nos.24 AND 26
GV II
Handed pair of cottages. 1889. By TM Lockwood. For staff of Browns of Chester department store, probably at the expense of Charles Brown. Flemish bond brown brick with moulded hard red brick dressings; red clay tile roof. 2 storeys. Plinth and moulded upper storey band. Each cottage has a framed and boarded door, part glazed, and a mullioned casement of 3 arched metal 3-pane lights in the lower storey; the door of No.26 is angled, at the corner with Old Hall Place, the upper storey providing a triangular canopy on timber brackets; the upper storey of each cottage has a timber oriel of three 8-pane lights under a timber-framed dormer gable; a shaped brick central ridge chimney. The gable-end of No.26 to Old Hall Place has a mullioned window of two 3-pane metal lights to each storey; the gabled rear wing has a framed and boarded back door with an overlight protected by a scrolled wrought-iron screen. Rear offices. INTERIORS not inspected. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 17/7/1889).
Listing NGR: SJ4044166184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470173
- 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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