1-5, Priory Place

Nos. 1-5 Priory Place is a row of five cottages built in 1898 for the Chester Cottage Improvement Company. The cottages are constructed from stone-dressed brown brick with blue diapering and feature a hipped grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front.

The buildings are two storeys high and each cottage has a door with one step leading up to it. The doors are topped by four tall thin panels beneath a cross-panel with leaded glazing. The stone lintels above the doors of Nos. 2 and 3 are inscribed with "A.D : 1898". Each cottage has a stone-mullioned, flush-quoined, three-light leaded casement window, along with a first-floor band. The stone quoins and mullions frame the leaded casements, which include one three-light and one one-light window for each cottage. A central terracotta panel displays the inscription "C : CI : C". Additional features include cast-iron rainwater pipes and heads, exposed eaves-rafters, a terracotta finial, and two ridge chimneys, with a shaped flush chimney at the left end. The rear of the cottages is simply detailed.

The interiors were not inspected. Historically, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Chester Cottage Improvement Company aimed to provide model dwellings for working people, a task that the City Council could not undertake until after 1918. Along with Nos. 6-16 Priory Place and Nos. 30, 32, and 34 Love Street, these cottages are considered the best example of the company's work.