Description

SJ4066
1932-1/6/191

CHESTER CITY (EM)
LOVE STREET
(West side)

Nos.30, 32 AND 34

II

GV

Row of 3 cottages. 1898. Built for the Chester Cottage
Improvement Company. Stone-dressed brown brick with blue
diapering; grey slate roof, main ridge parallel with front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 adjoining gables to front. 3 doors,
each with one step, have 4 tall, narrow panels beneath a
cross-panel with leaded glazing; ornate stone lintels, that to
No.32 dated 1898; a stone-mullioned flush-quoined 3-light
leaded casement to each cottage. Brick band at first floor;
stone quoins and mullions to leaded casements, one of 3-lights
and one of one light to each cottage; cast-iron rainwater
pipes with ornate heads. Bargeboards to front gables; central
gable has terracotta panel inscribed "C : CI : C". A shaped
brick chimney in front of ridge and a simple chimney behind
ridge above each party wall.
The left end has a one-light leaded window to the first floor.
The rear, with boarded doors to yards, one-storey rear wings,
is simply detailed, with wood casements.
INTERIORS not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: at the turn of the C19/C20 the Chester
Cottage Improvement Company attempted philanthropically to
provide model dwellings for working people, a task which the
City Council did not have the resources to undertake until
after 1918. During the C19 cottages in Love Street had been
some of the worst in Chester. See also Priory Place Nos 1-5
(qv).
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
160-161).

Listing NGR: SJ 40977 66311

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656579

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