Listed Building: 1-6, GAMUL PLACE (1376250)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4065NE 595-1/6/188 GAMUL PLACE (South side) Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) GV II Row of 6 court cottages. 1872. For Mr T Fluitt. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof. 2 storeys, each cottage of one bay. Doorways and windows have segmental brick arches; framed and boarded doors, those to Nos 5 & 6 altered; 12-pane horizontally-sliding sashes; flush eaves; brick ridge chimneys. A restored outshut at the rear of each cottage. Gamul Place, refurbished late C20 by Chester City Council, is probably the only surviving example of court housing, as opposed to alley housing and larger courtyard houses, in Chester. INTERIORS not inspected. These buildings represent a rare survival in any city in the late C19 in Britain, related to earlier building traditions. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 20/11/1872). Listing NGR: SJ4058865919