Listed Building: 24 AND 26, COMMONHALL STREET (1376179)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SW COMMONHALL STREET 595-1/3/141 (North side) 02/08/93 Nos.24 AND 26 GV II Handed pair of cottages. 1889. By TM Lockwood. For staff of Browns of Chester department store, probably at the expense of Charles Brown. Flemish bond brown brick with moulded hard red brick dressings; red clay tile roof. 2 storeys. Plinth and moulded upper storey band. Each cottage has a framed and boarded door, part glazed, and a mullioned casement of 3 arched metal 3-pane lights in the lower storey; the door of No.26 is angled, at the corner with Old Hall Place, the upper storey providing a triangular canopy on timber brackets; the upper storey of each cottage has a timber oriel of three 8-pane lights under a timber-framed dormer gable; a shaped brick central ridge chimney. The gable-end of No.26 to Old Hall Place has a mullioned window of two 3-pane metal lights to each storey; the gabled rear wing has a framed and boarded back door with an overlight protected by a scrolled wrought-iron screen. Rear offices. INTERIORS not inspected. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 17/7/1889). Listing NGR: SJ4044166184