Numbers 1And 2 Balcony House And Attached Railings To Front Steps The Old Assembly Room

SJ2778 794-1/4/97 22/03/74

NESTON THE PARADE, Parkgate Village (East side)

Nos.1 and 2 Balcony House and attached railings to front steps

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Includes: The Old Assembly Room HOLYWELL CLOSE Parkgate Village. House, later assembly rooms, now three houses with railings attached to front steps. Late C18 with C19 and C20 alterations and balcony of 1865. Incised render on brick with cast-iron balcony; slate roof with brick coped gables and rendered stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 5-window front. Two flights of 9 steps each give access to early C20 front doors with tall overlights: steps have balustrades of openwork panels and flat handrails. Windows on all floors are recessed sashes with single glazing bars, slightly segmental heads and painted stone sills, on second floor extended as raised sillband. First floor windows are fronted by elaborate balcony with openwork balustrade supported at front on slender shafts with traceried spandrels; returns to left and right are carried on traceried brackets. Left return has 3-storey, 1-window gable end with of 3-storey 1-window wing to left; further left is 2-storey 3-window wing. Windows to 3-storey parts repeat those on main front. 2-storey wing has sashes with exposed weight boxes and glazing bars. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 27962 78054