List of non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works by John Douglas

[4] Douglas was born in the Cheshire village of Sandiway and was articled to the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley, later becoming his chief assistant.

[6] As his office was in Chester, most of his work was carried out in Cheshire and North Wales, although some was further afield in regions including Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and Shropshire.

[7] From an early stage in his career, Douglas attracted commissions from wealthy and powerful patrons, the first of which came from Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere.

Douglas designed a large number and variety of buildings in the family's Eaton Hall estate and the surrounding villages.

[8] It contains a great variety of buildings, including schools, shops, offices, hotels, public houses, banks, model farms, cheese factories and a gentlemen's club.

A highly ornate structure in wrought iron, with a railing at the base. It carries a clock with Roman numerals; this has a red frame bearing the date "1897" in gold, and under it is a plate with an inscription in gold lettering. Above the clock are the initials "VR" in gold, and at the summit is a green cupola with a weather vane.
Eastgate Clock designed by Douglas and erected on Chester 's Eastgate in 1899 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
A square sandstone structure with an arch on each side, closed by a railing. On its top is a slate spire.
Billy Hobby's Well
An elevated view of a black-and-white drawing of an elaborate arched structure. At the bottom are three arches, the central one being the largest. Above these is a highly decorated spire with smaller turrets on each side. Under the spire are friezes containing crowns and heraldic shields, and the inscription "WELCOME EARL and COUNTESS of CHESTER".
Drawing dated 1869 of the Triumphal Arch, Chester
A row of shops seen at an angle with an arcade at ground level. Above this the building is timber-framed, with four gables; the lateral two of these have painted plaster panels and decorated timber framing within the gable, and the central gables contain brick nogging and pargeting.
St Werburgh's Mount, Chester
A black-and-white drawing, with the house to the left and the school to the right. The house is in stone with a jettied timber-framed upper storey; the school is in stone, T-shaped, and has a narrow octagonal turret and spire on its right.
Eccleston School , drawn by Fordham, Douglas' partner, in 1879
A front view of a two-storey public house, the lower storey in brick and the upper storey plastered. It has a protruding central bay with a gable, steep tiled roofs and an ornate inn sign protruding diagonally from the right corner.
George and Dragon, Great Budworth
A black-and-white drawing of a three-storey timber-framed building seen from an angle. The lowest storey has a door on the left with a series of windows to the right; glazing extends across the middle storey, with a wide oriel window in the centre; the top gabled storey also contains an oriel window and at the top is an elaborately carved bargeboard.
Drawing of Little Nag's Head Cocoa House in 1877
An old photograph showing, from a slight angle, a house on the left and a school on the right. The house is in stone with a jettied timber-framed upper storey; the school is in stone with three gables in a steep roof containing three dormers and, to the left a bell cote.
Photograph of Waverton school and the schoolmaster's house taken about 1880
A black-and-white drawing from an elevated angle, showing a farmhouse on the left and a farm buildings to the right. The farmhouse is in two storeys, and has three shaped gables and four tall chimney stacks; the house and outbuildings form a quadrangle with an arched gateway over which is a timber-framed gable.
Wrexham Road Farm in 1888
The front of a building with three storeys plus attics is seen from a slight angle. The ground floor is in stone; the upper storeys are in brick with stone dressings. On the front is a frieze containing heraldic shields, a coat of arms, and a variety of windows; at the top are two turrets and a shaped gable.
Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank
A square structure in banded stone with various decorations, including a statue on a column. On one face is a clock and at the top is a short spire with ball finials.
Peers Memorial Fountain and Clocktower
A drawing of the front of a three-storey building with an attic. The ground floor has four windows and a door; the middle and upper storeys contain a series of arched windows in pairs; the gable is shaped and contains more windows and the date 1883.
Architect's drawing of Cheshire County Constabulary, now 142 Foregate Street, Chester
A black-and-white drawing showing a farm from a slightly elevated angle. The farmhouse is to the left and has a protruding bay with a timber-framed gabled upper storey; a farm building is at a right-angle on the right, and its upper storey is entirely timber-framed.
Saighton Lane Farm in 1888
A stone building, partly ivy-covered, seen from a slight angle, with a playing field in the foreground. The front of the building contains a square battlemented tower, two shaped gables and a series of plain gables.
Ruthin School
A small arched sandstone bridge seen from an angle, with a tree to the right and houses and factory buildings in the background.
Dell Bridge, Port Sunlight
A brick building with stone dressings seen from the front. At the centre is a bay with a large shaped gable containing a big window; to the right is a bay consisting of a turret containing a door and a clock face and a spire; to the left is a smaller bay with a shaped gable.
Lyceum, Port Sunlight
The corner of a street with a range of shops running up the right side of the street; the shops have stone lower storeys and highly detailed timber-framed upper storeys that include oriel windows and gables. To the right of the range of shops is another shop with a modern shop front; it is taller than the others, and is timber-framed above the ground floor.
St Werburgh Street, Chester
A two-storey building seem from a small angle, the lower storey in stone, the upper timber-framed; at the top are two small gables and on the corner is a small turret.
St Oswald's Chambers, Chester
The front wing of the building seen from its corner. It has two storeys; the lower storey is in brick with stone dressings and contains two wide arches in the entrance front; the upper storey is timber-framed and gabled; at both extremities there are tall chimney stacks with spiral decorative brickwork. Behind the entrance wing are larger wings that contain the baths.
Chester baths
Part of a two-storey stone building seen directly from the front. A paved path leads to a doorway in a slightly protruding bay; over the doorway is an inscribed plaque, and above that is a statue in a niche.
St Deiniol's Library
Part of a stone building seen from the front. Towards the right of the picture is a three-storey square tower containing a door. The building extends on both sides of the tower and has two storeys; the portion of the building to the left contains two gables.
Friars School, Bangor
A street containing a range of two-storey shops on the left seen from a slightly elevated position. The lower storey contains modern shop fronts behind an arcade; the upper storey is timber-framed and contains a variety of windows and decorated gables.
5–9 Northgate Street, Chester
Part of a range of gabled shops seen from ground level. The lower storey contains modern shop fronts behind an arcade, The upper storey is timber-framed and contains bow windows in the foreground and oriel windows beyond.
11–13 Northgate Street, Chester
A black-and-white drawing of a range of buildings on a corner. The central corner building is in three storeys, and has two turrets with a stair tower to the right. Two buildings extend to its left and four to its right; all these are similar, with arched shop fronts in the lower storey and paired windows in the upper storey.
Bank Buildings, Birkenhead 1901
A complex range of predominately black-and-white timber-framed buildings seen from a corner. To the left is a range of shops with an arcade at ground level and windows and decorated gables above. The building on the corner has four gables of differing size and height and a spire; this building has a painted effigy in the corner of the middle storey. To the right is a simpler building; it is a public house in three storeys with three dormers.
29–31 Northgate Street, Chester
A tower-like structure in stone with a clock face on each side. Above each clock is a gable and at the summit of the structure is a spire.
Rayner Memorial Clock Tower
A two-storey building seen from the corner; the lower storey is brick and the upper storeys timber-framed. The left side extends further than the right and contains the public conveniences, with two doorways on the ground floor and a long dormer above. On the corner is a doorway with windows on each side; above are three windows extending round the corner, each with a gable. Behind these is a tiled spire.
Public conveniences , Chester
A stone building with a projecting bay, a tall chimney and a slim spire
Eccleston school