Listed Building: TRAFFORD HOUSE (1375979)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4165 VICTORIA CRESCENT 1932-1/8/289 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.1 AND 3 Trafford House GV II Pair of Italianate villas. c1850. Rendered stone-dressed brick with hipped grey slate roofs. Converted to flats, with some alterations, mid C20. EXTERIOR: basement facing Dee, north, 2 storeys and attic; 4 bays plus added short bay, right. Plinth; openings round-arched to ground floor, rectangular to first floor, in Classical cases. Porches inset in corners have incised parallel-sided pilasters with key-pattern at their heads; the side-arch to No.3, right, is masked by later wing. 2 tripartite sashes, now of 2 panes, with pilasters. First-floor band, lower arris moulded; four 8-pane cross-casements to first floor; frieze and broad corniced boxed eaves on exposed joists. 4 gabled roof-dormers, those to No.1 with oval casements and Classical surrounds, those to No.3 replaced, rectangular. A longitudinal central chimney of 10 flues with old pots; a rear central chimney and a right lateral chimney. The garden-face to the Dee has a 2-bay central portion between end-bays with pediment gables. The end-bays have 2-storey canted bay windows to basement and ground floor, a 3-pane casement to each face below and a tall sash to each face above; the central portion has 2 triple casements to the basement, 2 triple tall windows giving onto a balcony with simple iron railing; the first floor has four 8-pane cross-casements. The attic has round-arched gable windows and 2 roof dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. This item and other houses in Lower Park Road, Queen's Park Road, St John's Road and Victoria Pathway form part of the Queen's Park suburb planned by James Harrison 1851, with villas probably designed by him. Listing NGR: SJ4105665962