NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT

NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT, 2 AND 3, DUKE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376208
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT, 2 AND 3, DUKE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376208
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT, 2 AND 3, DUKE STREET

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:: NUMBERS 2 AND 3 CLAYTON COURT, 2 AND 3, DUKE 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 40759 65966

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE DUKE STREET 595-1/6/148 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.2 and 3 Clayton Court (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET No.30)

GV II

Town house. c1760 altered and probably divided 1834 and altered late C20. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brick rendered to street, with grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: cellar and 3 storeys, 4 windows. Painted stone plinth. No.2, left, has 3 repaired stone steps and panelled case to replaced part-glazed 6-panel door in recessed porch. a replaced 12-pane recessed horned sash. No.3 has 3 stone steps to door of 2 short panels, 2 pairs of long panels and 2 short panels in panelled case with architrave; a replaced slightly recessed tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes. Sillband to second storey; a replaced 12-pane recessed horned sash, a blocked sash and two replaced 12-pane recessed sashes. Sillband to third storey; fenestration as to second storey. Lead rainwater pipe and head; band and cornice to parapet. The west gable-end is largely recased in brick. The south, formerly garden, front has 3 former coach houses, now garages, with boarded doors, segmental arches and keystones, forming a projecting basement. The next storey has a replaced central small-pane glazed door to balcony on basement roof in a case with replaced architrave and consoles; a replaced 4;12;4 pane tripartite sash with wedge lintel and keystone to each side of door. The second main storey has a floor band, a 12-pane central sash and two 4;12;4 pane tripartite sashes with wedge lintels and keystones. The third storey has floorband and windows similar to the second storey. Rusticated quoins; moulded cornice of painted stone; brick parapet; moulded coping. INTERIOR: No.3 has cellar with probably stone-cut lower walls, stone steps and brick barrel-vault. The hall has patterned tile floor, HL hinges to front door and round arch on fluted pilasters at rear. The west front room has surfaces covered; the rear room has panelled dado, fire surround with panelled overmantel and ceiling cornice. The open-well stair has turned newel, closed string and 3 slender column-on-vase balusters per step, 2 missing. The second storey has panelled embrasures with benches, panelled pilasters to arch to rear. The front room has a cornice. The large rear room has entrance alcove

with panelled basket-arch, and a similar arched alcove further back; cornice. The stair continues to the third storey which has a Georgian fireplace in front room; the rear room is altered. The stair to the attic is simpler than below, No.2 could not be inspected. No.1 Clayton Court, 1834 (rainwater head) has been much altered and is not included in this item.

Listing NGR: SJ4075965966

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Legacy System number:: 470202
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.