Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 BOUGHTON 1932-1/6/14 (North side) 28/07/55 Nos.125 AND 127 Richmond Place

GV II

Pair of town houses, later offices. Early C19 altered internally. Flemish bond brown brick; stucco; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 windows. Ionic stone verandah has a pair of columns between each window-bay and one column to each side of the narrower entrance-bay at each end, all on a 3-step stylobate; replaced railings, simplified. Stucco ground floor with pilasters to entrance bays; door to right of 6 fielded panels, to left altered to a 2 fielded panels, 2 glazed panels and simple overlight; 4 recessed 12-pane sashes. Entablature to verandah has frieze, cornice and parapet of stone with panels of 11;12;12;11 vase balusters; 4 full-height 15-pane sashes with cornices beneath brick tympani of round-ended sills and slightly cambered gauged brick heads; stone cornice with vase finials; a central ridge chimney. Added bay, left, with no features of special note. The rear has an altered rear wing of 2 low storeys with some horizontally-sliding sashes, painted stone sills. Rear of main block displays 2 recessed 16-pane ground-floor sashes, two 12-pane first floor sashes and four of 9 panes to second floor with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads; a lead rainwater pipe and head. INTERIOR altered post 1972. Original open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, turned newel, moulded cast-iron balusters and swept rail. Panelled embrasures; door architraves; a few C19 doors including shaped pair in Tudor-arched opening between main block and left wing; one or two early C19 fireplace surrounds; some plaster cornices; moulded plaster ceiling to a first-floor front room.



Listing NGR: SJ4175166493

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