Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW UNION PLACE
595-1/3/378 (East side)
Nos.1-7 (Odd)

GV II

4 alley houses, now used by restaurant and office Nos 14 & 16
Grosvenor Street (qv). Probably 1830s. Brown brick in Flemish
bond to front and English garden wall bond to ends; hipped
grey slate roof.
3 storeys, each former house of one bay. Painted sandstone
plinth; one sandstone step to each door; doorcases with simple
pilasters, friezes and cornices; doors of 6 flush panels to
Nos 1,5 & 7, replaced 6-panel door to No.3; recessed sashes
with painted stone sills and, except in third storey, wedge
lintels with cambered soffits, of 16 panes to first and second
storey and, shorter, 12 panes to third storey; cast-iron
rainwater pipes and heads; plain sandstone eaves coping; 2
ridge chimneys. A rare survival of alley housing, converted
without significant external alteration.
INTERIORS: altered.
Nos 1-7 Union Place and Nos 1,3 & 5 Cuppin Street (qv) formed
part of the same development.

Listing NGR: SJ4047566018

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656987

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)