Fernrock Kinders

SJ4166 1932-1/6/192 10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM) LOWER PARK ROAD (North side)

Nos.3 AND 5 Kinders and Fernrock

II

GV

2 attached villas. 1851-1860. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roofs, described separately. EXTERIOR: No.3 of two 3-bay storeys, nearly symmetrical, with added garage wing, left, has plinth, 6-panel door in rusticated case, with overlight; canted 2-storey bay window with lights of 4;6;4 panes to ground floor; a 6-panel door in stilted round archway with leaded radial-bar fanlight. Frieze and cornice at first floor; volute, left, below sillband; casements of 3;6;3 panes in bay window; casement of two 3-pane lights above door; frieze and cornice to roof, main ridge parallel with front, with hips to bay window; projecting lateral plinthed chimney left; chimney right. The left end has rusticated corner, sillband and a round-arched casement behind chimney. The ground floor of the rear has a 6-pane cross-casement in eared architrave, a replaced door under a wedge lintel and a 6-pane cross-casement under wedge lintel. The first floor has sillband and two 6-pane cross-casements. INTERIOR: has a vigorously-expressed newel stair, 6-pane doors, panelled embrasures and ceiling cornices. EXTERIOR: No.5 has two 3-bay storeys, recessed to left. Plinth; square bay window of four 4-pane transomed lights; three stone steps to distyle Ionic portico; replaced panelled door and 1-pane fanlight in round-arched Classical case of stone; balustrade between recessed panels over porch; an 8-pane cross-casement in eared architrave with cornice on consoles. First floor stringcourse; sillband; an 8-pane pair of French casements; triple round-arched 3-pane casements over porch; a 6-pane pair of French casements, right; all openings have cases or architraves of stone. 3 stone-dressed plinthed chimneys. The right end has a canted 1-storey bay window with French windows, stone pilasters and entablature with balustrade to balcony above; 4 cross-casements to first floor; conservatory. The rear has a canted stone bay window with a 4-pane transomed light in each oblique face and an 8-pane cross-casement to front; an 8-pane pair of transomed French casements with 4-pane sidelights in eared architrave with entablature; a cross-casement in similar stone case. INTERIOR: has a vigorously expressed mid C19 newel stair, 10-panel doors, panelled embrasures and ceiling cornices.

Listing NGR: SJ 41185 66017