Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 LOWER PARK ROAD 1932-1/6/193 (North side) 10/01/72 No.7 Tavenor Tower

GV II

Villa. c1850. Rendered with hipped grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 windows to main block; recessed left wing; pilasters to each floor of main block and between first and second bays; tripartite window of 4-pane lights with transoms; a 4-pane window in eared architrave; portico with pair of Ionic columns at each corner has 4-panel door with 1-pane fanlight in pilastered case with keystone to round arch; modillion entablature with balustrade; casement of two 4-pane lights in eared architrave. First floor stringcourse, pargeted frieze and sillband; 4 casements of two 3-pane lights in eared architraves; modillion cornice; 6 chimneys with arched panels, modillion cornices and old pots. The recessed left bay has banded rustication to the ground floor; a boarded door; a 4-pane sash to the first floor; mansard roof with 2-pane sash in a pediment-gable dormer with dentils. The north face to the Dee has projecting right wing with recessed 2-pane sashes; 3 ground-floor openings, sillband, 3 first floor sashes, eaves cornice, mansard roof with 3 pedimented dormers. Slender tower with loops at attic level, round-arched belvedere, dentil cornice, pyramidal roof. The left wing has casement by tower, tripartite casements, round-arched to first floor and a canted 2-storey bay window. INTERIOR not inspected.



Listing NGR: SJ4122366021

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)