Boundary Wall And Gatepiers, Scotus College Including Archway And Former Stable Block, 2 Chesters Road

This is a later 19th-century house, now incorporated into Scotus College, with a single-storey and attic former servants' wing attached to the northwest and later alterations, including a modern conservatory linking to a 20th-century building. The house is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, featuring a base course, deep overhanging band, and deep, modillioned eaves. A shallow flight of steps leads to a single-storey, flat-roofed entrance portico with Doric columns and a pierced parapet in the re-entrant corner to the southeast. Canted bay windows are present, with a wide, round bay window to the west featuring a pierced parapet. The window openings are bipartite and tripartite, with stone mullions, some incorporating hoodmoulds. Pierced balconies are attached to some first-floor windows, and the servants’ wing has a pair of pedimented dormers.

The windows are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case, with multi-pane glazing to the former servants' wing. The roof is covered in grey slates, with corniced gable, wallhead, and ridge stacks topped with decorative hexagonal cans.

The interior retains its original room layout and exhibits quality timberwork, particularly on the ground floor. A glass and timber entrance screen is flanked by timber panels and sidelights. The hall is timber panelled, and the public rooms feature dado height panelling. A semi-enclosed open-well staircase is present, with timber balusters, a handrail, and a circular opening overlooking the hall. Large, intricately carved timber chimneypieces are found throughout the public rooms, one in the hall featuring barley sugar twist piers, another flanked by niches with decorative painted glass, and others with overmantels. Decorative plaster cornicing, ceiling roses, and plasterwork are also present, along with one decorative timber ceiling. Bathrooms have contrasting marble panelling. Deep-set, architraved timber doors, some four-panelled, and others featuring an oval pattern in timber and coloured glass, are in place, along with working timber shutters. Simple, classical fire surrounds and some simple stained glass are also present.

To the north is a single-storey and attic former stable block with an attached single-storey, two-bay cottage to the west. This block is constructed of tooled, squared, and snecked sandstone with large openings containing part-glazed, boarded timber doors. A pedimented loft opening breaks the eaves, and a pair of small glazed and louvred round-arched attic window openings are found to the east, along with coped skews and skew-putts and deep, modillioned eaves. The roof is covered in grey slates. An adjoining wall to the southeast features a large, roll-moulded, round-arched opening and blank shield motifs.

The boundary wall and gatepiers, to the east, are constructed of coped rubble with lower curved sections incorporating decorative iron railings at the entrance. A pair of polygonal-plan gatepiers have base courses, string courses, and decorative low polygonal capstones, each bearing the inscription 'CHESTERS'.