THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE)

THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE), 6-16, PARK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376376
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE)
Statutory Address:: THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE), 6-16, PARK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376376
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE)
Statutory Address 1:: THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE), 6-16, PARK 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:: THE NINE HOUSES (OF WHICH SIX SURVIVE), 6-16, PARK 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:: SJ4075566069

Details

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/331 28/07/55

CHESTER CITY (IM) PARK STREET (West side)

Nos.6-16 (Even) The Nine Houses (of which six survive) (Formerly Listed as: PARK STREET Nos.6-16 (Even)) II

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Row of 6 cottages, probably formerly almshouses. c1650, repaired and renovated 1968-9. Stone-dressed brick, brick-nogged and plaster-panelled small framing, brick to rear and grey slate roofs with 6 jettied front gables. 2 storeys, each cottage of one bay. One-course sandstone plinth; oak boarded doors in stone-dressed openings with Tudor-arched lintels; a 12-pane horizontally-sliding sash to each cottage; an oak console at each end of each cottage carries a chevron-banded bressumer. The framing to the second storey has heavy bay-posts and altered small framing to accommodate a replaced central horned 16-pane sash to each cottage; the side-panels have a substantial intermediate rail; the broad central panel to each cottage, formerly 2 panels, has a light sill-rail. 4 oak brackets per cottage carry the jettied bressumers to the small-framed gables. Replaced bargeboards and finials. A brick chimney towards the rear of each. The south end is of old brick, the rear is rebuilt. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 40755 66069

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Legacy System number:: 470371
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.