Description

SJ4166
1932-1/6/194
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
LOWER PARK ROAD
(North side)

Nos.9 AND 11
Redcliff, with walls, piers and garden structures

(Formerly Listed as: LOWER PARK ROAD No.9 Redcliff)

II

GV

Italianate house, now 2 houses. 1852 extended probably 1860s
and with garden structures 1852 by Edward Kemp. Stucco, grey
slate; red sandstone garden features.
EXTERIOR: No.9 has 2 storeys plus cellar, No.11 which forms
the 1860s extension has 2 storeys plus attic. 3 bays to front.
Symmetrical west front: 2 stone steps to Ionic portico with
paired columns, entablature with modillion cornice and
balustrade; 4-panel door with 1-pane fanlight in round arch. A
casement of 2 full-height 4-pane lights in eared architrave to
each side; Corinthian corner pilasters; short recessed wings,
blank to left, with oriel, right, on moulded corbel and with
shaped copper roof. First floor has frieze between 2
stringcourses, panelled beneath windows; Doric corner
pilasters; triple round-arched pilastered 3-pane casements
above portico; a casement of two 3-pane lights in eared
architrave to each side; eaves cornice; stuccoed chimneys.
Right side to the road, detailed similarly to front has
tripartite 4;8;4-pane full-height casement in eared architrave
to ground floor and a casement of two 3-pane lights to first
floor. A short recessed bay to rear has a niche to ground
floor and a pair of round-arched 2-pane sashes to first floor.
The rear wing forming No.11 has a projecting timber-framed
porch with a 4-pane casement left and 2 to right. The first
floor has four 4-pane casements and attic in mansard roof has
4 gabled dormer with 2-pane sashes in pediment cases.
The left face to the Dee has detailing as the front. The rear
bay has a conservatory-porch, C19, having solid apsidal end
with 3 round-arched fixed lights, glazed roof with semi-dome
to end, and iron column of intersecting spiral bars. No.11 has
a large first-floor balcony with balustrade, with fenestration
similar to the front to road.
INTERIOR: largely intact. Purpose-designed Minton tile floor
to hall; doors with 4 bolection panels, and one of 6 panels to
cellars with brick barrel-vaulting and wine-bins; panelled

embrasures and dados, well-preserved stair; plaster
wall-panelling and ceiling in front left room and good right
front room with restored decoration; cast-iron features.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden retains the plan and features,
other than greenhouse, as designed by Edward Kemp and
illustrated in his "How to Lay Out a Garden", 3rd Edition
1858. Stone steps down from house-level to upper terrace;
semicircular stone-walled viewing platform at house level,
east; separate flights of 14 and 24 steps, west and east, to
middle terrace, the west steps having winders through two 90
degree turns and the east steps encircling the viewing
platform; flight of 20 stone steps through rockery between
middle and lower terraces; bedrock cliff west of lower garden,
with evidence of Gothick arch; kerb to small circular pool;
formerly heated wall along north boundary of garden;
greenhouse foundations.
The quality of exterior and interior and their relation to the
contemporary garden make this item probably the most complete
example of a C19 suburban house in Chester.

Listing NGR: SJ 41278 66028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656583

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  For the Record