Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/171 (South side)
10/01/72 No.8 Street and No.6 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.8 Street and No.6 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, rebuilt early C19 as undercroft
shop, Row shop and accommodation, now shop and storage. Ashlar
yellow sandstone with hipped grey slate roof, ridge parallel
with front.
The shopfront to the street has a round arch to each side of a
broader segmental arch, all stop-chamfered; a shaped 1-pane
glazed door in the west arch; 1-pane windows in the other
arches. The tall Row-opening has ornate panelled cast-iron
railing, painted end-piers perhaps of stone with inset wooden
panels, sloped boarded stallboard 1.5m from front to back,
covered Row walk and modern shopfront of no interest;
cornices; ceiling covered. Painted timber entablature over Row
opening has lion-heads at corners of frieze and dentils to
cornice; the ashlar stonework is exposed to each side of
pilastered front, and to the third and fourth storeys. The
third storey has 3 altered sashes in recessed architraves; the
fourth storey has 3 recessed 12-pane sashes in simple openings
with deep sills on cyma corbels; stone cornice and parapet
course. Brick lateral chimney, set back west.
INTERIOR: 5 steps down to undercroft; masonry in cupboard
behind shop-window, east, may indicate medieval party wall.
Other surfaces in shop at undercroft and Row levels are
covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4055166274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656840

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6