Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE
1932-1/8/167 (West side)
10/01/72 No.72
Sexton's cottage to St Mary's Church
(Formerly Listed as:
HANDBRIDGE
No.72)

GV II

Cottage. 1887. By John Douglas at expense of the first Duke of
Westminster. Stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red brick; red
clay tile roof.
2 storeys of one bay; ground floor has hip-roofed porch facing
churchyard, left. The cottage has gable-end to road; 2
corbelled basket-arches support the first storey above a
slightly bayed window of 3 ogee-headed leaded lights. First
floor stone band; diapering; 2 mullioned 2-light leaded
casements in ornate sandstone surround; band above lintels;
stepped and shaped gable with diapering, leaded light to
cockloft, stone copings and ball finial; chimney on ridge with
separate spiral-moulded brick flues, 3 to front, one to rear.
A simpler stone-capped rear gable.
The porch has a small leaded light to front, door of 5 tall
narrow panels on blacksmith's hinges in ornate sandstone case
dated 1887; wrought-iron gate to cottage and churchyard.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4072865476

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656563

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)