Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE PARK STREET
595-1/4/330 (West side)
10/01/72 No.4

GV II

Town house, now dental surgeries. 1881. By WH Kelly. Orange
brick and timber frame with plaster panels; render to sides;
grey slate roof with paired gables to street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys of 2 bays. The brick first storey has door
of 8 fielded panels with 1-pane ogee-headed fanlight; carriage
entry north of door; recessed canted mullioned and transomed
bay window of 15 panes south of door; richly-carved fascia. 4
ornate consoles carry carved jettied bressumer. Band of small
framing with ornate quadrant braces. Two 4-light mullioned and
transomed casements have 6 panes to lower sidelights, glazing
bars removed from lights between and top lights with 2 panes,
a semicircular pane and 2 shaped top panes; the panel-width
between casements has 2 ornate cartouches; the end-panels have
quadrant braces above the intermediate rail; 2 consoles carry
jettied bressumer inscribed THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FOUNTAIN
OF LIFE. The third storey has 2 panel-widths of small framing
to each side of a pair of mullioned 3-light casements with
semicircular upper panes; quadrant and S bracing; 4 Atlantes
and 2 consoles; an ornate cartouche between windows; jettied
gabled tie-beam; band of 8 ornate St Andrew's Cross panels;
small framing in each gable; ornately carved bargeboards sweep
down to the consoles carrying their outer ends; drop finials;
terracotta ridge finials at back. Shaped lateral chimneys set
back. The north side is rendered, the south side of brick with
some plaster-panelled timber framing. The rear wing, with no
visible individual features of special interest, looks older
than the front.
INTERIOR: the first storey front room has fireplace and
overmantel with hollow obelisks as finials; some Vernacular
Revival 6-panel doors and cases and stair after the manner of
Douglas.
Pevsner's comment here sums up ironically the relationship
between vernacular and Vernacular Revival in Chester "Their
(Nos 6-16 Park Street (qv)) neighbour is of 1881 and hence
bigger and better."
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 165).

Listing NGR: SJ4074966083

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656960

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings