GATEACRE BROW (continued)

No.28 A, B, C & D. On corner of Sandfield Road, 'Prudential Building' Architect W. Aubrey Thomas (1889) who built Liver Building 19o8-10. Red sandstone ground floor with canted corner & shop windows - 28A with curved glass. Upper storey oversailing on brackets seems to be timber frame and plaster with plaster frieze & many small plaster panels of Biblical scenes (said to be casts of C17 Flemish panels). Corner oriel with ornamented octagonal turret & red tiled bell-shaped roof. Shallow wide oriel to Gateacre Brow, with moulded wood mullions & transoms, & leaded glazing; a 4-light window above in gable with carved bargeboards, red tiled roof & red brick chimney (c.f. corner of Bridge Street and Eastgate Street, Chester, 1888 - architect T.M. Lockwood.)

No.28. Attached to Prudential Building; stucco, 2-storeys, mid C19 ? small paned modern shop front, new small pane window over (included in List of Buildings for group value.)

Nos 34 & 36. Adjoin No.28; early C19 brick cottages on 1835 map, 2-storeys; No.34 with 3-light window on ground floor, 2 2-light windows above, all slide-across sashes with small panes, low proportions; No.36 has centre round-arched doorway flanked by 2-storey canted bay, the upper lights small paned.

Nos 38 & 40. Identical late Georgian brick cottages, round-arched doorways, and one l6-paned sash window on each floor.

No.42. Late Georgian brick house (projects) with 1 12-paned sash window each floor; entrance on left gable end, with panelled centre door, round arched fanlight with glazing bars, 2 16-paned windows on ground floor & 3 above, centre one lacks glazing bars, in stone architrave with cornice & carved console brackets.

Clegg's factory building. Rectangular 3-storey building - brick, stone cornice and bands, surface decorated with lozenges and circles of blue and yellow brick (polychromatic fashion c.f. All Saints Margaret St, Architect Wm. Butterfield c.1850) Large centre louvre (for brewing) with fish-scale slate roof, iron cresting & cock windvane, 5 segmental-headed cast iron windows on street facade to each lower storey, top storey has 7 square cast iron windows in a band of glazing. Cast iron columns and beams internally.

No.44. Corner, once cottages, now furniture shop (group value).

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