Listed Building: SEXTONS COTTAGE TO ST MARYS CHURCH (1375847)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE 1932-1/8/167 (West side) 10/01/72 No.72 Sexton's cottage to St Mary's Church (Formerly Listed as: HANDBRIDGE No.72) GV II Cottage. 1887. By John Douglas at expense of the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed blue-diapered Ruabon red brick; red clay tile roof. 2 storeys of one bay; ground floor has hip-roofed porch facing churchyard, left. The cottage has gable-end to road; 2 corbelled basket-arches support the first storey above a slightly bayed window of 3 ogee-headed leaded lights. First floor stone band; diapering; 2 mullioned 2-light leaded casements in ornate sandstone surround; band above lintels; stepped and shaped gable with diapering, leaded light to cockloft, stone copings and ball finial; chimney on ridge with separate spiral-moulded brick flues, 3 to front, one to rear. A simpler stone-capped rear gable. The porch has a small leaded light to front, door of 5 tall narrow panels on blacksmith's hinges in ornate sandstone case dated 1887; wrought-iron gate to cottage and churchyard. INTERIOR not inspected. Listing NGR: SJ4072865476