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1-11, Bath Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1915 / 53°11'29"N

Longitude: -2.8828 / 2°52'58"W

OS Eastings: 341111

OS Northings: 366409

OS Grid: SJ411664

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2VM0

Mapcode Global: WH88F.P1FN

Plus Code: 9C5V54R8+HV

Entry Name: 1-11, Bath Street

Listing Date: 10 January 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375694

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469673

ID on this website: 101375694

Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Chester

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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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

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