Dee House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Institutional.
Dee House
- WRENN ID
- idle-bracket-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Institutional
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dee House is a detached house that later became an Ursuline convent school and is now used as offices. It was built in the mid-18th century and altered in the mid-19th century. The building features stone-dressed brick and blue-brick-dressed brick with slate roofs. It stands three storeys high and has a central block with five windows, a projecting wing with four windows on the right, and a left wing that has been replaced by a Gothic Revival chapel wing.
The main entrance has a door with four fielded panels set in a bolection case of painted stone, with an overlight above. The ground floor windows are boarded over. The other windows have moulded sills and gauged-brick flat arches with conical keystones, and the building has rusticated quoins, a first-floor band, flush 12-pane sash windows, a second-floor band, and additional 12-pane sashes. A moulded cornice runs below a panelled brick parapet, which features corner stones and moulded stone coping. There is a rainwater pipe with a moulded lead head and three brick chimneys, and the roof is covered in grey slate.
The chapel wing, built around 1860, has a hipped right bay and a main chapel bay with a front gable. It features grouped lancets with blue brick relieving arches and forms the middle storey of the wing. The roof of the chapel wing is covered in banded grey and purple slates, topped with a cross-finial at the apex of the hip on the right bay. The interior was not inspected, and the building was vacant at the time of the survey in June 1992.
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