House Of Shelter

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