OAN field survey, located by GPS to an accuracy of +/- 1m. Listed building. Only Recorded because several of the cottages are in a state of disrepair. 2002/10/16/OAN/NW

A pair of later 19th century houses, built c1865 as part of New Brighton, a lead-mining community for which the trustees of the Chester Charities sold 24 plots in 1865, 4 of which were for pubs. This part of the Minera parish, known as 'City Lands', was beqeathed by Owen Jones (d1659), a butcher of Chester, to 'the poor of every Company of Merchants and Craftsmen in the City of Chester'. The area was agricultural until the mid-C18 when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, promoted lead prospecting so successfully that between 1761 and 1781 some £13,000 were paid to the charity in royalties.

a pair of semi-detached houses constructed of rubble stone with squared stone quoins, a slate, close-eaved, roof and a shared central brick stack. They are both of two storeys, each cottage being single-fronted with a door to the outside and one large, 16-pane, hornless sash on each floor. The windows have tooled stone lintels and sills, the ground floor lintels being large and shaped. The doors are boarded. The rear elevation of each cottage has a single 4-pane window to each floor.
(Source; Cadwlisting database) S Fielding RCAHMW 04/01/2006 SF