Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/74 (East side)
No.49 Street and No.57 Row

GV II

Undercroft shop, Row shop and accommodation, now undercroft
shop and office at Row level and above; on site of former
undercroft and town house. Rebuilt 1891 by WM Boden. Painted
brick and timber framing with plaster panels; brown tile roof,
ridge parallel with street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels. Modern
shopfront with covered entry to Feathers Lane, north. Brick
end-piers and timber rail on shaped splat balusters to Row
front; boarded sloped stallboard 2.16m from front to back;
quarry-tiled Row walk; modern quasi-Georgian office front has
door of 6-fielded panels and radial-bar overlight, fielded
sub-panels to small-pane window and modillion cornice; Row-top
bressumer on shaped brackets; pendant to segmental timber arch
over entry. A hipped lean-to roof on ornate brackets projects
beneath an entry-bay cross casement and intersects a 6-light
canted oriel on the main bay; the third storey wall is painted
brick. The timber-framed fourth storey, flush over the entry,
is boldly jettied on shaped brackets to the main bay; a row of
ornate small panels across both bays; a 2-pane casement
standing proud on brackets over the entry; a 6-light square
oriel on the main bay; arch-braced side panels; a 1-pane
window in each return of the jetty; windows have leaded
glazing above transoms; a coved jetty to the main-bay front
gable; tie-beam inscribed 1891; S-curved herringbone struts;
moulded bargeboards and a shaped finial; a red-brick ridge
chimney.
INTERIOR: the fourth storey has 1891 partitions; the lower
storeys are lined.
The external expression of this item is similar to Nos 3, 5 &
7 Street and Row (qv) by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SJ4057366148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656759

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