Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/55 (East side)
10/01/72 No.1 Street and No.1 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No.1 Street & No.1 Row)
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.2)

GV II*

Includes: No.2 Street EASTGATE STREET AND ROW.
Shop in undercroft, shop at Row level and possibly former
accommodation in third and attic storeys, now part of the Row
shop. 1888. By TM Lockwood. Said to be for the 1st Duke of
Westminster, but owned in 1889 by Chester City Council. Timber
frame with plaster panels; red-brown clay tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft, Row and attic. One
bay to Bridge Street, a canted corner with an octagonal
tourelle and one bay, north, to Eastgate Street. A modern
shopfront to each street with 7 stone steps to the Row at the
corner under a round timber arch. Painted timber posts through
undercroft and Row storeys. Shaped and pierced splat balusters
between brick end piers to Row front; sloped boarded
stallboard 1.93m from front to back; terrazzo Row walk with
mosaic borders; original shopfront to Row has double doors at
corner, each leaf having a short fielded panel beneath a tall
glazed panel with round upper corners; overlight; reeded
vertically-boarded stall-risers, reeded posts and moulded
frames to shop window of 2 panes to Bridge Street and one pane
to Eastgate Street; a glazed showcase against each end-pier;
fascia and dentilled cornice above shop door and windows;
ceiling with lozenge and circular plaster panels in reeded
timber frame. The third storey bressumer has a patterned
fascia; 3 rows of plaster panels, the lower with central
decorative features and arched braces, the middle row with
round-arched heads and the upper row with ornate quadrant
braces; a mullioned 3-light casement and a 1-light window to
Bridge Street; a taller 4-light canted mullioned and transomed
oriel in the corner turret; a continuous 6-light mullioned
casement to Eastgate Street; leaded glazing with all panes
shaped in all third storey and attic windows; carved cornice
with 4 gargoyles above the oriel. The attic roof is hipped to
the corner; a dormer gable to Bridge Street projects on
consoles carried by herms, with 3 mullioned lights above

round-arched panels; the gable, jettied on shaped brackets,
has herringbone struts and moulded bargeboards. The corner
turret has 3 good pargeted panels beneath a mullioned 4-light
canted casement; the 2-stage curved tourelle roof is capped
with a good wind-vane. 4 consoles separated by round-arched
pargeted panels carry the jettied blank gable to Bridge Street
which has the raised and painted Grosvenor arms in its
round-arched central panel, with shaped panels to each side
and above; carved bargeboards and drop finial. A shaped buff
sandstone chimney at each end of ridge, that to east shared
with No.2 Eastgate Street.
INTERIOR: the undercroft shop, 3 steps down from Bridge Street
and 4 steps from Eastgate Street, has a moulded cast-iron
column and some late C19 beams; it has been extended into No.2
Eastgate Street. An open-well closed-string oak stair from Row
storey to third storey has square newels with plinths and
capitals and moulded swept rail on 2 slender barleysugar
balusters per step. The steep softwood stair to the attic has
turned newels, some turned balusters and some reeded; the roof
structure is exposed.
The best liked of TM Lockwood's buildings in Chester, well
executed in his most flamboyant style.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 166).

Listing NGR: SJ4053566272

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 1 Bridge Street, Chester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4595930

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)