Description

SJ4166
1932-1/6/3
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
BATH STREET
(East side)

Nos.1-11 (Odd)

II

GV

Informally composed row of 6 cottages. 1903. By John Douglas
as architect and owner. Buff squared snecked rubble sandstone;
grey-green small-slate roofs.
2 storeys, partly in the steep-pitched roofs. Main ridge
parallel with front. From left to right there are front gable,
dormer gable, a projecting turret, a paired turret and a
corner turret. At ground floor the turrets provide porches;
above there is corbelling and conical turret-roofs. Boarded
yard-door left, in link wall with No.142 Foregate Street (qv);
balustrade parapet above door; cottage doors with leaded
glazed upper panels in segmental-arched openings; small paved
forecourts with simple wrought-iron railings; wrought-iron
door furniture; 2 canted bay windows, hip-roofed; windows are
stone mullioned, the glazing leaded; the turret, right corner,
to No.11 has cartouche over ogee door lintel dated 1903.
Leaded casements in varied openings to the first floor. Large
red-brick chimneys; the rear is brick.
INTERIORS not inspected, but can be seen to contain features
of interest.
With No.142 Foregate Street and No.13 Bath Street (qv), this
item comprises a distinguished streetscape. A good example of
Douglas's Germanic manner at cottage scale.
(Chester City Council and Committees: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 1901-1903: 11/9/01,9/7/02,3/6/3).

Listing NGR: SJ 41111 66409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96278160

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014