Monument record 11480 - Nineteenth Century Basements to Terraced Properties, Frodsham Street South

<1> Earthworks Archaeological Services, 2017, New Drainage Works in Frodsham Street, Chester: An Archaeological Watching Brief, R4041 (Client Report). SCH8276.

As part of a wider programme of refurbishment, new subsurface drainage facilities were required to serve Frodsham Street, Chester. Between August 2016 and February 2017, the groundworks for this drainage were subject to an archaeological watching brief, as it is known that the current line of Frodsham Street overlies the Roman legionary parade ground of the first century AD.

The initial phase of the watching brief, towards the southern end of the new drainage trench, revealed the basements of nineteenth century terraced properties that once extended eastwards out into Frodsham Street prior to the widening of the street in the mid twentieth century.