The Flaggs and Hamilton House, and Front Garden Walls and Gates is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

The Flaggs and Hamilton House, and Front Garden Walls and Gates

WRENN ID
rough-steel-linden
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
House
Address
The Flaggs and Hamilton House, and Front Garden Walls and Gates, Church Street, Tarvin, CH3 8EB
OS grid reference
SJ 491 670
Coordinates
53.19763, -2.76298
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Flaggs and Hamilton House are a pair of houses dating to 1756, as indicated by the rainhead inscription. They are constructed of Flemish bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings, and have a Welsh slate roof with three brick chimneys. The houses are arranged on a single-pile plan and have a symmetrical eight-bay façade. A stone plinth provides access to the cellars. The front features rusticated stone quoins, a moulded cornice, and a plain blocking course. The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor recessed. The upper floors have cased and flush windows, while the top storey has 6-pane sashes. The windows have rusticated stone heads with raised keyblocks, stone sills, and are recessed, with the remainder cased and flush. Doorways are set within moulded wooden doorcases with panelled reveals. A segmental pediment adorns the left bay, and a triangular pediment the right, both containing six-panelled doors approached by two stone steps. A central drainpipe bears the date 1756. The front gardens are enclosed by low brick walls with chamfered stone copings and simple iron railings. Each house has a gateway with square piers and capstones, and small wrought iron gates.

The interior of Hamilton House features a narrow hall with a semi-circular archway with a raised keyblock and imposts. The drawing room retains an original fireplace with rilled pilasters and a frieze, though the grate is modern. A dogleg staircase with square newels and a crisscross balustrade, resembling a Chinese Chippendale design, rises to the rear. Many doors are of two fielded panels in simple surrounds, although some are later four and six-panelled replacements. Extensive cellars are present.

The Flaggs showcase a hall with a segmental arch on fluted pilasters. The main room possesses a bold egg and dart moulded cornice with a fluted centre, and a 18th-century fireplace taken from Tarvin Hall. The room to the right has a less ornate cornice. An open-well pine staircase has three column balusters per tread, column newels, and a curving handrail, with carved acanthus on the open string. Upper rooms feature moulded cornices, one with moulded beams. Later four-panelled doors are found below, while the top storey contains doors and cupboards with two fielded panels.

Historical research by Dr A Gomme indicates a close stylistic comparison with the north side of Abbey Square in Chester, suggesting they were built by the same lessee, Taylor.

Local climate

The Flaggs and Hamilton House, and Front Garden Walls and Gates receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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