Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/52 (West side)
10/01/72 No.46 Street and No.46 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No 46 Street & No 48 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, probably 1760s, demolished for
redevelopment as part of a department store late C19. Facade
of third and fourth storeys a facsimile of the Georgian front;
buff sandstone and painted brick; grey slate roof at
right-angle to street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 2 broad bays. Modern shopfronts to street
between sandstone central pier and end-piers with corbels,
grotesque heads and gabled setbacks to Row piers. The Row
front has piers with impost bands and wrought-iron railings
with spear-headed principal balusters, serpentine common
balusters and scroll-ornamented double rail; no stallboard;
granolithic Row walk; rendered rear wall to Row has blocked
4-panel door probably to former passage, modern glazed door,
flush tripartite sash of 8;12;8 panes, former doorway rendered
over and a tripartite sash of 8;12;8 panes; panelled soffit to
bressumer; plastered ceiling; moulded cornice to bressumer.
The upper storeys are of painted English garden wall bond
brickwork with rusticated quoins, flush sashes, 6 per storey,
with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with
cornices to keystones, of 15 panes to the third storey and 12
panes to the fourth storey; stone cornice with dentils and
modillions; brick parapet with stone plinth, 4 brick pilasters
and stone cap.
The rear has a plain C20 extension.
INTERIOR has no visible features of interest.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4053466133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656758

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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide