31 (Beauford Lodge) and 33 (Douglas House) and front garden walls and gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. House. 13 related planning applications.

31 (Beauford Lodge) and 33 (Douglas House) and front garden walls and gate piers

WRENN ID
iron-baluster-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Nos. 31 (Beauford Lodge) and 33 (Douglas House) are a pair of houses dating to 1869, designed by John Douglas. No. 33 was originally Douglas's own home, with minor alterations occurring around 1945. The houses are constructed of brown brick with blue brick diapering and stone detailing, topped with a grey-green slate roof.

The houses are two storeys, each with three bays, arranged with projecting front-gabled central bays and two-bay wings to each side, with attic dormers above. A blue-brick plinth runs along the base. The front features a tripartite stone-mullioned sash window on the left. A timber-framed porch and a small conservatory project from the front, with a leaded three-light mullioned-and-transomed window and a leaded cross-window glazed door. The fenestration of No. 33 mirrors that of No. 31. Diapered brickwork appears between the ground floor and first floor windows. No. 31 incorporates a five-faced oriel window on the first floor, added around 1945. Above the porch are small, two-pane lancet sashes. The end bay of No. 33 has a pair of pointed-arched two-pane sashes. Miniature one-pane windows are present in each dormer gable, lighting the cocklofts, while each front gable features a pair of arched miniature windows with blank recessed arched panels. A pair of substantial shaped chimneys are present, one before and one behind the ridge, with additional projecting chimneys on each gable, featuring plinths and shaped flues.

The rear elevation is simpler, with two hipped lucarnes.

The interior of No. 31 retains much original detail, including doors within their frames, a staircase with shaped splat balusters, and a frieze in the right front downstairs room. The interior of No. 33 is believed to be similarly maintained, although Douglas did not include the same frieze as in No. 31.

The garden is enclosed by sandstone walls with flush, steeply-weathered copings. Square gate piers, diminishing beneath octagonal finials, mark the entrance.

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