Grosvenor Park Road

The row of six town houses to the east were built in 1872 by John Douglas as architect and developer. In Ruabon red brick they have some plaster panels and terracotta and a red-brown clay tile roof. A varied but disciplined rhythm in Douglas's Germanic manner, flanked like his adjoining Zion Chapel by spired octagonal turrets. The houses were highly praised by Raffles Davison, noted by Muthesius and acclaimed by the Chester Archaeological Society as distinguished townscape between the then recently constructed City Road from the railway station and the 5-year-old Grosvenor Park where Kemp was designer and Douglas architect.