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Latitude: 53.1814 / 53°10'53"N
Longitude: -2.8912 / 2°53'28"W
OS Eastings: 340537
OS Northings: 365298
OS Grid: SJ405652
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3D6K
Mapcode Global: WH88F.K9GC
Plus Code: 9C5V54J5+HG
Entry Name: 32-40, Overleigh Road
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375884
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469863
ID on this website: 101375884
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
Tagged with: Cottage
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
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