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1–11 and 13 Bath Street consists of a row of six attached cottages and a separate town house on the east side of Bath Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. Both the row of cottages and the house are recorded in the
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as designated Grade II
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.


History

The buildings were designed by the local architect John Douglas and built on his own land in 1903.


Architecture

Nos. 1–11 stand at the north end of Bath Street. They are built in buff
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with grey-green slate roofs in two storeys. The frontage is asymmetrical and includes a variety of features, including two large plain
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s with their upper storeys
jettied Jettying (jetty, jutty, from Old French ''getee, jette'') is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. This has the advantage of increasing the avail ...
on corbels, two smaller dormers with shaped gables, and three round turrets with conical roofs. The cottages containing dormers are set back from the rest, have
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s in the lower storey, and small forecourts with
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railings in front. Over the door of No. 11 is a
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containing the date 1903. On the gables and on the summits of the turrets are finials. The chimneys and the rear of the cottages are constructed in brick. No. 13 is at the south end of the street and has two storeys. It is built in red brick with panels containing stonework in the upper storey, and has
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green slate roofs. Its plan consists of a main square part with a wing to the north. On the front of the main part of the house are, from the left, a round turret with a conical roof containing a hipped
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and surmounted by a finial, a high shaped chimney, and an octagonal turret with an octagonal spire and finial. The upper storeys of the main part of the house and the octagonal turret are jettied on
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corbels. The wing contains the front door and a jettied dormer with a casement window.


See also

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Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east) Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. It contains over 650 structures that are designated as listed buildings by English Heritage and included in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, over 500 are listed at Grade II, the ...
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List of houses and associated buildings by John Douglas John Douglas (1830–1911) was an English architect based in Chester, Cheshire. His designs included new churches, alterations to and restoration of existing churches, church furnishings, new houses and alterations to existing houses, and a v ...


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Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:1-11 and 13 Bath Street, Chester John Douglas buildings Grade II listed buildings in Chester Houses in Chester Houses completed in 1903 Grade II listed houses