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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: FORMER RECTORY AND GARDEN RAILING

List entry Number: 1375975

Location

FORMER RECTORY AND GARDEN RAILING, 3, VICARS LANE

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 28-Jul-1955

Date of most recent amendment: 23-Jul-1998

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 469956

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List entry Description

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Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 VICARS LANE 1932-1/6/287 (North side) 28/07/55 No.3 Former Rectory and garden railing (Formerly Listed as: VICAR'S LANE No.3 St John's Rectory)

GV II*

Vicarage later rectory, then social club, now offices. c1750. Red-brown brick, Flemish bond to front; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 windows. Painted stone plinth with moulded cap; rusticated quoins; 5-panel door and overlight with looped criss-cross glazing bars in painted stone Gibbs surround with pulvinated frieze and pediment; simple sillband; 2 flush 12-pane sashes each side of doorway. First-floor band; sillband; five flush 12-pane sashes; individual sills to five shorter 9-pane sashes to second floor; all windows to front have rusticated wedge lintels with projecting keystones. Modillion cornice; 10-course brick parapet with simple painted stone cornice; almost central gabled attic dormer behind parapet; flush chimneys on stone-coped gables. The left end has one almost flush sash per storey, 12-pane to ground floor and first floor and 6-pane to second floor. Rear has replaced 6-panel door, a flush 12-pane sash, and a similar opening blocked, to each side of door. The first floor has stair window of 6 panes above 12 panes, a blocked opening and a flush 12-pane sash to each side; the second floor has a flush 6-pane sash and a flush 9-pane sash. INTERIOR: entrance hall has replaced inner door, original dado rail and modillion cornice; doors of 6 fielded panels; round archway with fluted pilasters. The front left room has panelled dado, timber fire surround, panelled embrasures, possibly later cornice; the front right room has panelled embrasures; the back left room has part of dado rail, corner fireplace with good carved overmantel; panelled embrasure. Good 6-flight open-well open-string stair with carved brackets, curtail step with rose on ring of balusters, 3 column-on-vase balusters per step, drop-newels at landings and dado-rail on panelled pilasters; swept rail, probably of oak. The first-floor front room occupying central and left bays has panelled embrasures, fire surround with eared architrave, swag frieze and dentil cornice, good ceiling cornice; the front right room has panelled embrasure. The rear is altered; simple



C18 fireplace in left room. Features have largely been stripped from the second floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: simple iron garden rail on stone plinth.



Listing NGR: SJ4094666245

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National Grid Reference: SJ 40946 66245

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