Description

SJ4065
1932-1/8/208
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
OVERLEIGH ROAD
(North West side)

Nos.32-40 (Even)

(Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Nos.26-40 (Even))

II

GV

Row of 5 estate cottages. 1897. By John Douglas. For the first
Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed Ruabon red brick; grey
slate roof with red terracotta ridge.
2 storey one-bay cottages. Framed and boarded doors on
wrought-iron hinges in sandstone cases with moulded arrises to
flush quoins and lintels; doors to Nos 32-38 are paired; that
to No.40 adjoins left end; a 2-pane 1-light window to side of
each paired door; a mullioned casement of three 3-pane metal
lights to each front parlour. Moulded sandstone band beneath
slightly projecting first floor; band of diapering mullioned
casements of two 3-pane lights under stone dormer-gables;
datestone 18;W;97; 2 ridge chimneys and right gable chimney.
Ground floor has canted corners, each with a small casement;
corbelled in stone to square corner of first floor. Each end
has a 2-light casement to each storey; 2 stone bands and stone
copings to each end-gable; similar copings at steps in roof
level. The rear is simply expressed, with yards between
1-storey outshuts having wash-house chimneys.
INTERIORS not inspected.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 267).

Listing NGR: SJ 40537 65298

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656590

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets