138 AND 138A, CHESTER ROAD

Nos. 138 and 138A on Chester Road are cottages built around 1910, likely by the architects Hamlyn and Wright of Warrington for Sir Gilbert Greenall. The buildings feature a lower storey made of red sandstone and an upper storey that is half-timbered, topped with a graded Westmorland green slate roof and two shaped chimneys on the ridge. There is a projecting plinth, and both the upper storey and gables are jettied, supported by heavy oak bargeboards.

The symmetrical front of No. 138 faces Chester Road and includes camber-arched windows on either side of the door, with a jettied upper storey resting on shaped stone corbels and an oriel window in the bedroom. The leaded glazing has been removed, and the half-glazed door has been altered. No. 138A faces the garden on the left side, featuring a door in the corner next to No. 140, a canted bay window with mullions, a five-light oriel window in the front bedroom, leaded glazing, and a framed and boarded half-glazed door with small panes.