Listed Building: DEE HOUSE (1375862)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4066 LITTLE ST JOHN STREET 1932-1/6/184 (South side (off)) 10/01/72 Dee House GV II Detached house, later Ursuline convent school, now offices. Mid C18 altered mid C19. Stone-dressed brick and blue-brick-dressed brick; slate roofs. 3 storeys. 5-window central block; projecting 4-window wing right; left wing replaced by Gothic Revival chapel wing. Door of 4 fielded panels in bolection case of painted stone; overlight and ground floor windows boarded over. Windows have moulded sills and gauged-brick flat arches with conical keystones; rusticated quoins; first floor band; flush 12-pane sashes; second floor band; 12-pane sashes; moulded cornice below panelled brick parapet with corner stones and moulded stone coping. A rainwater pipe and moulded lead head; 3 brick chimneys. Grey slate roof. The chapel wing c1860 has hipped right bay and main chapel bay with front gable. Grouped lancets with blue brick relieving arches. The chapel forms the middle storey of the wing. The roof is banded grey and purple slates; cross-finial on apex of hip to right bay. INTERIOR not inspected. Building vacant at time of survey (June 1992). Listing NGR: SJ4081766116