26, 28 AND 30, OVERLEIGH ROAD

SJ4065 1932-1/8/207 10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM) OVERLEIGH ROAD (North West side)

Nos.26, 28 AND 30

(Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Nos.26-40 (Even))

II

GV

Row of 3 estate cottages. 1896. By John Douglas. For the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red brick with brown clay tile roof. 2 storey 1-bay cottages. Framed and boarded doors in sandstone cases with moulded arrises to flush quoins and lintels; doors to Nos 26 and 28 are paired; that to No.30 adjoins left end; a small 2-pane window to side of each door; a mullioned casement of three 3-pane metal lights to each front parlour. Moulded sandstone cyma band beneath slightly projecting first floor; band of diapering; mullioned casements of two 3-pane lights under stone dormer-gables; datestone 18:W:96; ridge chimney and right gable chimney. Ground floor of left end of No.30, on street corner, has canted corner, corbelled in stone to square corner of first floor. The rear is simply expressed, with walled yards and offices. INTERIORS not inspected. (Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 267).

Listing NGR: SJ 40567 65318