Conservation Area: Ash Grove Conservation Area (165)

Ash Grove is located two miles south west of Chester City Centre in the parish of Marlstoncum-Lache. The present conservation area includes the core of the hamlet of Five Ashes, with Five Ashes Farm (no longer existing) located slightly to the north west. It can only be assumed that the origins of the name derived from the local tree species. The land, prior to the building of Ash Grove, was owned by the Marquis of Westminster and is shown on a map of his properties dating from 1847, at which time only Five Ashes Farm is depicted. Ash Grove was built soon after in the 1850s, and is first mentioned in the 1861 Census. The similar architectural styles of the houses would suggest that they were built at the same time and then individually sold forming a short residential street among fields.