1-7, Lumley Place

SJ4066 1932-1/6/196 10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM) LUMLEY PLACE (North side)

Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)

II

GV

Row of 7 almshouses for retired clergy. c1870. Attributed to John Douglas but varies from his normal manner. for the first Duke of Westminster. Red-brown and yellow brick; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with first floor partly in roof. Boarded doors with moulded vertical cover-strips in camber-arched openings, opening into recessed porches; a casement of 5 iron lights to each dwelling, with brick mullions and cambered arches. A brick pilaster between each cottage and at ends; brick sillband and band above openings. Corbelled first-floor band below a 7-course band with projecting brown-header lattice and yellow-brick lozenge panels; 2 casements of round-arched lights with brick mullions, one of 3 lights, the other 2 lights, to each cottage; patterned leaded glazing in the arches. A cottage-width front gable to Nos 1 and 7; a dormer gable above the pair of casements to each intermediate cottage. Terracotta panels in gables, yellow-buff, with incised fleur-de-lys, roses, pies and portcullises. Shaped purlin-ends. 3 ridge chimneys and a lateral chimney at left end. The rear has no individual features of special interest. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 40857 66223