Listed Building: 2 AND 4, VICTORIA PATHWAY (1375980)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4165 VICTORIA PATHWAY 1932-1/8/290 (West side) 21/07/95 Nos.2 AND 4 GV II Pair of cottages. c1852. Probably by James Harrison, said to have been for the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. Flemish bond brown brick; steep grey slate roofs, picturesque. 2 storeys. No.4 left, has recessed left wing, 2 stone steps to 4-panel door with simple fanlight in corner with front-gabled main bay which has a hip-roofed 1-storey canted bay window of 4 transomed 3-pane lights; a cross-casement in left side of main bay. No.2 has a 6-pane cross-casement; gabled porch right with door and fanlight in flank and 4-pane casement to front; a gable set back. First floor of No.4 has inserted gabled dormer on roof of left wing, a small blocked opening and an inserted 6-pane casement in left side of porch bay, a 6-pane round-arched opening to front; a 6-pane cross-casement to main bay; No.2 has a 6-pane cross-casement under dormer-gable and a 4-pane casement to front of the recessed wing, right. INTERIORS not inspected. With Nos 6-18 and 3-17 Victoria Pathway (qv), this item comprises an unusual example of mid C19 town planning analogous to mid C20 Radburn layouts with a footpath serving the fronts of the cottages and vehicular streets their rear. Listing NGR: SJ4108065717