14-32, EGERTON STREET

This is a row of ten cottages located on Egerton Street, Chester, built around 1830. The cottages are constructed from brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the front elevation, with a grey slate roof. They are two storeys in height, each cottage being one bay wide.

The cottages have painted brick plinths; round-arched doorways are set within pilastered cases. Each door consists of four fielded panels above two flush panels, topped with radial-bar fanlights. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with painted stone sills and false wedge lintels, the soffits being cambered. Cast-iron rainwater pipes and heads are present, along with a moulded eaves cornice. A chimney is located in front of the ridge, and one behind the ridge between each cottage.

Number 14 has a lintel doorway with a three-pane overlight, while number 20 has a replaced door and casement windows within otherwise unaltered openings. The rear of the properties features two-storey outshuts with catslide roofs. Each storey of the main block has one 12-pane sash window. Number 20 has a flat roof to its rear wing, and number 22 lacks a rear wing entirely. The interiors have not been inspected. The cottages appear on Wood’s Plan of the City of Chester from 1833 to 1834.