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[[File:13 Bath Street, Chester.jpg|thumb|180px|13 Bath Street]]
'''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 [[National Heritage List for England]] as designated Grade&nbsp;II [[Listed building#England and Wales|listed buildings]].<ref name=images1>{{NHLE |num= 1375694|desc= 1–11&nbsp;Bath Street, Chester|accessdate= 5 April 2012}}</ref><ref name=images13>{{NHLE |num= 1375695|desc= The Spinney, 13&nbsp;Bath Street, Chester|accessdate= 5 April 2012}}</ref>
==History==
The buildings were designed by the local architect [[John Douglas (English architect)|John Douglas]] and built on his own land in 1903.<ref>{{cite book | last =Hubbard | first =Edward | authorlink = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | title =The Work of John Douglas | publisher =[[The Victorian Society]] | year =1991 | location =London | pages = 193–194| isbn =0-901657-16-6 }}</ref>
==Architecture==
Nos. 1–11 stand at the north end of Bath Street.  They are built in buff [[sandstone]] with grey-green [[slate]] roofs in two storeys.  The frontage is asymmetrical and includes a variety of features, including two large plain [[gable]]s with their upper storeys [[jettying|jettied]] on [[corbel]]s, two smaller [[dormer]]s with shaped gables, and three round [[Turret (architecture)|turret]]s with conical roofs.  The cottages containing dormers are set back from the rest, have [[bay window]]s in the lower storey, and small [[Courtyard|forecourts]] with [[wrought iron]] railings in front.  Over the door of No.&nbsp;11 is a [[Cartouche (design)|cartouche]] containing the date 1903.  On the gables and on the summits of the turrets are [[finial]]s.  The chimneys and the rear of the cottages are constructed in brick.<ref name=images1/>
No.&nbsp;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 [[Westmorland]] 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 [[Hip roof|hipped]] [[lucarne]] 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 [[terracotta]] corbels.  The wing contains the front door and a jettied dormer with a [[casement window]].<ref name=images13/>
==See also==
*[[Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east)]]
*[[List of houses and associated buildings by John Douglas]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
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*{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =[[Yale University Press]]| year =2011| origyear=1971| location =New Haven and London| page = 272| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}
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[[Category:John Douglas buildings]]
[[Category:Grade II listed buildings in Chester]]
[[Category:Houses in Chester]]
[[Category:Houses completed in 1903]]
[[Category:Grade II listed houses]]