Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 VICARS LANE
1932-1/6/288 (North side)
No.4
House of Shelter

GV II

Almshouse now land agent's office. 1889-90. By John Douglas.
For the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed red brick,
blue diapering; red tile roof.
2 storeys, 3 bays, almost symmetrical. One stone step to
framed and boarded door on wrought-iron hinges in
basket-arched stone-dressed opening; similarly detailed
adjoining opening, left, contains a mullioned 2-light leaded
casement, the arch dated 1889; a mullioned and transomed
3-light leaded casement left and right. The first floor has a
stone band rising 3 courses above the door and central window;
3 stone-dressed cross-casements in slightly projecting stone
cases with blank tracery in round arches, beneath gabled
half-dormers with shaped copings and finials. A plinthed
chimney with 3 separated barleysugar flues of moulded brick on
each end gable. The right end is simply detailed, as is the
rear.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 166;
259).

Listing NGR: SJ4091666220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656666

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)