Building Name

158-168 New Chester Road Port Sunlight

Date
1899
Street
New Chester Road
District/Town
Port Sunlight, Wirral
County/Country
Cheshire, England
Architect
Client
Lever Brothers Limited
Work
New build

Terrace of six cottages. The central pair of 162 & 164 are slightly set back. All cottages have feature gables with oversailing verges facing the road; together with first floor bay windows on decorative timber brackets. The end pair of cottages each have a buff terracotta frieze at first floor level adding decoration and further modelling the elevation. Fairfaced brick to the ground floor level with red sandstone surrounds to doors & windows. Pebbledash render to the first floors with timber casement window surrounds with decorative brackets; even to the small gable windows to the end elevations. The gables have a tiled band to the base and over each bay, with a painted stucco upper panel with decorative plaster motif. The central cottages have smaller dormer gables while the end pairs have full width gables with internal valleys. The main roof is in plain clay tiles with elaborately detailed chimneys with brick vertical ribs and brick corbelled caps.