Albion Mews

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE ALBION STREET 595-1/4/26 (South side) Albion Mews

GV II

Drill hall. 1868. By James Harrison, built from public subscriptions. Converted to flats mid C20. Stone-dressed brick, largely painted, with grey slate roof. 2 storeys plus added recessed Mansard-roofed attic; 3 storey gatehouse tower at east end has red sandstone archway with moulded arrises to jambs and double-chamfered voussoirs; battered buttresses; a 2m brick plinth to west wing, now rendered; a rectangular loop and 3 stone cross-windows to the first storey. 3 recessed panels with blank shields, a stone cross-window with pointed upper lights and a quatrefoil in a recessed stone circlet above the archway. The second storey has a 1-light transomed stone window and 3 cross-windows with shouldered arch, pointed arch and shouldered arch to upper lights. The crenellated parapet to the west wing has a small square turret at the west corner with machicolated crenels. The third storey of the gatehouse has a 2-light mullioned window, a crenellated parapet and a corner turret with machicolated crenels. Gatehouse archway has double cross-boarded doors. The east side is English garden wall bond. INTERIOR rebuilt.

Listing NGR: SJ4071566014