Listed Building: 1-11, BATH STREET (1375694)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4166 BATH STREET 1932-1/6/3 (East side) 10/01/72 Nos.1-11 (Odd) GV II 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: SJ4110866417