Boys Club is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1972. Club.
Boys Club
- WRENN ID
- fallen-courtyard-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1972
- Type
- Club
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD 1932-1/8/204 (South East side) 01/10/72 Boys' Club (Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Handbridge Men's Institute)
GV II
Working men's institute, now boy's club. 1895. By TM Lockwood. For the first Duke of Westminster. Red sandstone ashlar and stone dressed red brick; grey slate roofs. 2 storeys and attic. In the sharp corner between Overleigh Road and Eaton Road. Ornate faces with shaped gables to north, west and east; simpler face to yard, south. The north front facing Handbridge centre has projecting full-height porch, left, and canted stair-bay, right. Ionic and vernacular detailing, much carving, stone mullioned and transomed windows, leaded glazing, ashlar banding and the round-arched lights which Lockwood favoured. INTERIOR has a substantial dogleg stair, some original doors and beamed ceilings, rather heavily detailed.
Listing NGR: SJ4072665427
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