Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/61 (East side)
28/07/55 Nos.17 & 19 Street and Nos.21 & 23
Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No 19 Street & Nos 21 & 23 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, rebuilt late C18 as undercroft
shop, Row shop and accommodation, now undercroft office, Row
shop and storage, partly disused. Rendered brick with slate
roof at right angle to street. Office front to street has no
interest.
EXTERIOR: Doric end-piers to Row-front; cast-iron railing to
front and returned on stallboard sides has circlets between
paired upper rails; stallboard 1.72m from front to back
altered and paved in granolithic; Row walk granolithic;
shopfront in early C20 manner has recessed small-paned central
door under ornamented depressed arch; bolection-moulded
panelled stallriser, timber pilasters and a 3-pane window with
spiral-moulded arrises; fascia; plaster ceiling. The rendered
bressumer above the Row-front sags slightly as if of timber.
The third and fourth storeys are rendered; sillband
immediately above Row-front cornice; 2 recessed 12-pane third
storey sashes; fourth storey sillband; 2 recessed 9-pane
sashes; coped shallow front gable; probably a lateral south
chimney, not clearly visible.
INTERIOR: the front undercroft is wholly lined; the cellar
behind reached from the Row shop has probably medieval
sandstone sidewalls. The shop is lined.; the storeys above,
not inspected, are stated to have a C19 stair against the
south wall and a mid to late Victorian rear attic.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street East: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4056066237

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656741

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)