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Latitude: 53.1846 / 53°11'4"N
Longitude: -2.8878 / 2°53'16"W
OS Eastings: 340768
OS Northings: 365645
OS Grid: SJ407656
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3724
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M61Y
Plus Code: 9C5V54M6+RV
Entry Name: 1-19, HANDBRIDGE (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Last Amended: 26 April 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375845
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469824
Also known as: 2–8, Mill Street, 1–19, Handbridge, 1, Queens Park Road
ID on this website: 101375845
Location: Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls
Church of England Diocese: Chester
SJ 4065
1932-1/8/170
CHESTER CITY (EM),
HANDBRIDGE (East side),
Nos. 1-19 (Odd)
23.07.1998
GV II
Includes: No.1 QUEEN'S PARK ROAD
Includes: Nos. 2-8 MILL STREET
12 shops, a flat over each, one cottage facing corner of Handbridge with Queen's Park Road, right, and 4 cottages to Mill Street, left. 1928-32. By Greenwood, City Engineer. For Chester City Council. Brick shaped and surfaced to simulate red sandstone, timber framing with plaster panels; roof of grey-green and buff slates. Late Vernacular Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The composition comprises a symmetrical range of 4 "stone-brick" cottages facing the Dee across Mill Street, a projecting and jettied gabled shop and flat on the angle with Handbridge, 10 shops with flats above facing handbridge, a projecting and jettied gabled shop and flat at the angle with Queen's Park Road, all with "stone-brick" shops and timber-framed flats; a "stone-brick" cottage towards Queen's Park Road. Oak shopfronts with half-glazed Tudor-arched recessed doors with shaped overlights; paired entrances to flats, each with one step, framed and boarded door on ornate hinges and Tudor archway of "Stone-brick". The upper storey, punctuated with 4 jet tied gables, has rail at sill-level, close studding and casements of 12-pane lights. The roof steps down with slope of street, a plinthed ridge chimney at each step.
INTERIORS: not inspected. The cottages form successful end-stops in a low-key C17 manner to a well-handled composition in a key position adjacent to the Old Dee Bridge.
Included as an excellent example of inter-war municipal town planning, the shops and cottages replaced older shops and condemned dwellings including court-cottages.
Listing NGR: SJ 40768 65645
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