Listed Building: 2-5, OLD HALL PLACE (1376374)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SW OLD HALL PLACE 595-1/3/329 (East side) 02/08/93 Nos.2-5 (Consecutive) GV II Row of 4 cottages for staff of Browns of Chester Department Store. c1889. By TM Lockwood 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 part-glazed framed and boarded door and a mullioned casement of three 3-pane arched lights in the lower storey; the doors of Nos 2 & 5 are angled at the corners of the row, the upper storey providing triangular canopies on timber brackets; the upper storey of each cottage has a timber oriel of three 8-pane lights under a timber-framed dormer gable; 2 shaped brick ridge chimneys. The gable-ends have a mullioned window of two 3-pane metal lights to the upper storey. Rear offices. INTERIORS not inspected. The cottages form a group with Nos 24 & 26 Commonhall Street (qv). (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB 17/7/1889). Listing NGR: SJ4043266203