Monument record 11530 - Excavated Nineteenth Century Terraced Houses, Boughton Road, Chester

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2020, Moxy Hotel, Chester, Cheshire: Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design, R4525 (Client Report). SCH9068.

The remains of parts of three terraces of 19th-century housing were recorded during an archaeological strip, map and sample evaluation on land off Boughton Road, Chester, between 2018 and 2020. These terraces were not depicted on a tithe map of 1848 but are first shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1874, indicating that they were built between 1848 and 1874. The three main terraces recorded are to the west of Fosbrook Street, Albert Terrace, and Victoria Terrace. Albert and Victoria terraces lined the east and west sides of the same road respectively. This road appears to have had no overarching name in 1874 but later came to be known as Victor Road. On the basis of historic maps, Victoria Terrace appears to have comprised longer, more architecturally detailed, and therefore slightly higher-status houses than Albert Terrace, or indeed the housing of any of the other nearby parallel roads.