26, 28 and 30, Overleigh Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Cottage.

26, 28 and 30, Overleigh Road

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SJ 405 653
Coordinates
53.18164, -2.89078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 26, 28, and 30 on Overleigh Road are a row of three estate cottages built in 1896 by architect John Douglas for the first Duke of Westminster. They are constructed from stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red brick and feature a brown clay tile roof. Each cottage is two stories high and consists of one bay.

The cottages have framed and boarded doors set in sandstone cases, with moulded arrises to the flush quoins and lintels. The doors for Nos. 26 and 28 are paired, while the door for No. 30 is located at the left end. Each door is accompanied by a small two-pane window on the side. The front parlours of the cottages have mullioned casements with three three-pane metal lights. A moulded sandstone cyma band runs beneath the slightly projecting first floor, which is decorated with a band of diapering. The cottages also feature mullioned casements of two three-pane lights beneath stone dormer-gables, and a datestone marked 18:W:96. There is a ridge chimney and a chimney on the right gable.

Notably, the ground floor of the left end of No. 30, which is on the street corner, has a canted corner that is corbelled in stone to form a square corner at the first floor. The rear of the cottages is simply designed, with walled yards and offices. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

26, 28 and 30, Overleigh Road receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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