Description

SJ4066
1932-1/6/196
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
LUMLEY PLACE
(North side)

Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)

II

GV

Row of 7 almshouses for retired clergy. c1870. Attributed to
John Douglas but varies from his normal manner. for the first
Duke of Westminster. Red-brown and yellow brick; grey slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with first floor partly in roof. Boarded
doors with moulded vertical cover-strips in camber-arched
openings, opening into recessed porches; a casement of 5 iron
lights to each dwelling, with brick mullions and cambered
arches. A brick pilaster between each cottage and at ends;
brick sillband and band above openings. Corbelled first-floor
band below a 7-course band with projecting brown-header
lattice and yellow-brick lozenge panels; 2 casements of
round-arched lights with brick mullions, one of 3 lights, the
other 2 lights, to each cottage; patterned leaded glazing in
the arches. A cottage-width front gable to Nos 1 and 7; a
dormer gable above the pair of casements to each intermediate
cottage. Terracotta panels in gables, yellow-buff, with
incised fleur-de-lys, roses, pies and portcullises. Shaped
purlin-ends. 3 ridge chimneys and a lateral chimney at left
end. The rear has no individual features of special interest.
INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 40857 66223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656585

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)