Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 PYECROFT STREET 1932-1/8/229 (East side) 15/08/89 No.55

GV II

Small house. c1850. Brown Flemish bond brickwork; grey slate roof. Late Georgian style. 2 storeys. Double fronted. Plain painted plinth, probably of sandstone. 4-panel door in round-arched opening has a fanlight with 2 radial bars; two 16-pane recessed sashes to each storey have painted stone sills and wedge lintels; the eaves gutter is expressed as a simple cornice. Brick chimneys. The rear has a 3-board door and 12-pane recessed sashes. The brick-paved walled rear yard with coal shed has an exterior toilet with pan boxed in wood, formerly a privy with ashpit. INTERIOR: straight stair; the right front room, over the cellar, has a boarded floor and simple plaster cornice; other rooms have quarry-tile floors; 4-panel doors to principal rooms, a broad-board door to the pantry. Small high-level windows in internal walls give borrowed light to dark areas.



Listing NGR: SJ4073665223

External Links

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