Chester House, Garden Chambers And Wall

Chester House is a detached riverside house and parsonage, dating from around 1830. It was built as the parsonage for St Paul's Church. The house is constructed of stucco over brick, with a grey slate hipped roof. It is two storeys high and double-fronted. The north-east, or entrance front, is nearly symmetrical and features a four-panel door with flush lower panels within a pedimented doorcase with pilasters. There is a recessed twelve-pane sash window to the left wing, a recessed panel in place of a sash to the right wing, and a broken pediment gable above the doorcase. Painted stone sills are present, and there is a sill band to the first floor. Above the door is a tripartite sash window with twelve panes, and recessed panels in place of sashes in each wing. Brick-backed stone walling encloses the Dee side of the property. The garden front has been altered with the addition of a verandah, an enclosed glazed balcony, and a small wing to the south-east. The ground floor has three thirty-pane windows, set below ground level on the entrance front, and the second floor has three recessed nine-pane sashes. The interiors were not inspected. The garden contains a range of three long and narrow, barrel-vaulted subterranean chambers constructed of brick. These chambers have been repaired and strengthened internally and appear to have been intended as boathouses or storerooms.