Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/78 (East side)
28/07/55 No.61 Street and Nos.71 & 73 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No.61 Street & Nos.71 & 73 Row)

GV II

Probably 2 undercrofts and town houses, then undercroft shop
and town house, now undercroft shop, Row shop and storage.
Medieval, rebuilt from Row upward c1760, altered C20. Flemish
bond brown brick with grey slate roof, ridge at right angle to
street and hipped to front.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row, probably 2
medieval bays converted to one C18.
Modern shopfront to street has end-piers covered. The Row
front has rendered end-piers, 2 cast-iron Roman Doric
intermediate columns and timber rail on stout turned
balusters; altered boarded stallboard 1.67m from front to
back, now scarcely sloped, with 2 steps down to flagged Row
walk. The modern shopfront has a blocked C19 door south and a
glazed modern door; plaster ceiling sloping down from
Row-front to shop; large Row-top bressumer has modillions to a
former cornice. Brick upper storeys have painted stone sills
and rusticated wedge lintels to replaced horned 12-pane
recessed sashes; full cornice of painted stone and tall brick
parapet with plain coping; a lateral chimney set back, north.
INTERIOR: the front part of the undercroft, 3 steps down from
the pavement, is lined, with no features visible; the back
part is paired, with the south chamber under a C18 brick
barrel-vault, now plastered. Observations during refurbishment
in July 1988 revealed medieval stone walls with a doorway and
fair east face to the present back wall, suggesting a similar
rear undercroft chamber to that in No.57 Street (qv). The Row
storey has some reused C17 oak beams. The 6-flight open-well
open-string stair behind the blocked south door, the lower 3
flights not presently in use, has softwood treads and risers,
carved brackets, turned newels, 3 column-on-vase balusters per
step, swept rail and, up to the third storey, dado pilasters
and rail and landing balustrade to the now floored well. A
later one-flight stair to the third storey looks late
Georgian, but altered, with steps covered, turned newel,
closed string, stick balusters and rail swept only to the
bottom newel.
The third-storey landing to the older stair has 3 doorways

with shouldered architraves, doors to the front chamber and
rear wing removed but to the second room of 6 fielded panels.
The front chamber over the Row has a panelled doorway,
well-panelled embrasures, an integral cast-iron
grate-and-mantel and a substantial cornice to west, south and
east walls; a probably brought-in stop-chamfered C17 beam over
entrance to rear wing. The fourth storey front room has a
cast-iron grate in a damaged surround with mantel cut off; a
door of 3 broad boards on butterfly hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ4057966117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656767

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