41 And 43, Hamilton Street

SJ4167 1932-1/9/164

CHESTER CITY (EM) HAMILTON STREET (West side)

Nos.41 AND 43

II

GV

Pair of suburban houses. c1850. Flemish bond brown brick with stone dressings and hipped grey slate roof. 2 storeys, double-fronted; plinth; flush quoins to corners. Each house has a projecting 2-storey central porch of yellow sandstone with a simple round-arched projecting doorcase, corniced, doors of 4 panels, those to No.41 fielded. Repaired cross-windows with moulded stone sills and wedge lintels, those to ground floor with gently cambered soffits; one window to each side of porch in both storeys and one above each doorway; stone pediments to porches. Plinthed chimneys, that to centre with four pairs of divided flues; that to each end with two pairs of flues. The flank wall of each house has a square hip-roofed projecting bay. Rears and INTERIORS not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the prospective plan, 1847 by C Rampling of Liverpool for development of this land with detached and semi-detached villas in substantial gardens was increased in density, but this item and Nos 15 & 17, 19 & 21, 23 & 25 and 27 & 29 (qv) Hamilton Street reflect the styles proposed in Rampling's birdseye sketches. (Rampling C: Plan for development of land off Hoole Road, Hoole: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SJ 41728 67213