Listed Building: 1A AND 3-37, PYECROFT STREET (1375907)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4065 PYECROFT STREET 1932-1/8/228 (East side) 15/08/89 Nos.1A AND 3-37 (Odd) GV II Terrace of 19 cottages of unusual plan. c1850. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof, hipped at left and over No.1A. Late Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. No.1A is of one bay, with a canted corner entrance; all other cottages are double fronted. Painted stone plinth; timber doorcases with flat hoods of Classical derivation; that to No.1A has an overlight and the timberwork has been renewed. Window openings have stone sills and slightly cambered rubbed-brick arches of redder hue. Ridge chimneys. The original doors are of 4 panels and the windows recessed sashes of 12 panes to the lower storey and 9 panes to the upper storey. Nos 7, 9, 17, 27 and 37 have replaced doors of 6 raised panels, in keeping; Nos 1A, 3, 5, 19, 25 and 31 have modern part-glazed small-panel doors; No.33 has an inter-war part-glazed panelled door and Nos 21 and 29 have flush doors or covered panels. Nos 9, 27 and, in the lower storey, No.33 have replaced small-pane wood hopper windows; No.19 has large-pane metal hoppers, and is included for group value only. Brick ridge chimneys. There were originally no rear-facing windows, but circular recesses in the gable of each rear wing and at the mid-point of the rear wall between gables suggest former haylofts with pitching-eyes, now blocked. Bathrooms and windows were later inserted. In 1861 tradesmen lived here, perhaps using horses and carts, and hence storage for hay and straw. INTERIORS not fully inspected. Nos 39-53 (odd) which adjoin the terrace are not included in this, or any other item. Listing NGR: SJ4069365377