Listed Building: 32-40, OVERLEIGH ROAD (1375884)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4065 OVERLEIGH ROAD 1932-1/8/208 (North West side) 10/01/72 Nos.32-40 (Even) (Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Nos.26-40 (Even)) GV II Row of 5 estate cottages. 1897. By John Douglas. For the first Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed Ruabon red brick; grey slate roof with red terracotta ridge. 2 storey one-bay cottages. Framed and boarded doors on wrought-iron hinges in sandstone cases with moulded arrises to flush quoins and lintels; doors to Nos 32-38 are paired; that to No.40 adjoins left end; a 2-pane 1-light window to side of each paired door; a mullioned casement of three 3-pane metal lights to each front parlour. Moulded sandstone band beneath slightly projecting first floor; band of diapering mullioned casements of two 3-pane lights under stone dormer-gables; datestone 18;W;97; 2 ridge chimneys and right gable chimney. Ground floor has canted corners, each with a small casement; corbelled in stone to square corner of first floor. Each end has a 2-light casement to each storey; 2 stone bands and stone copings to each end-gable; similar copings at steps in roof level. The rear is simply expressed, with yards between 1-storey outshuts having wash-house chimneys. INTERIORS not inspected. (Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 267). Listing NGR: SJ4054765308