Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/156 (North side)
10/01/72 Nos.19 & 21 Street and No.29 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
Nos.19 & 21 Street & No.29 Row)

GV II

2 undercrofts and broad-fronted town house, now 2 shops at
street level, one shop at Row level and office reached from
Godstall Lane. All visible elements rebuilt early C19, altered
C20. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front; roof concealed.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 5 windows each to third and fourth
storeys. Modern street level shopfronts of no interest. The
Row front has early C20 cast-iron railings, rendered end-piers
and 2 Tuscan columns near centre; broad softwood boards to
stallboard 2.2m front to rear; granolithic surface to Row
walk. Shopfront to Row has a raised margined 6-panel door,
that to west with 3 timber steps, that to east 2 stone steps,
in timber cases with panelled pilasters and correct friezes
and cornices, flanking a shop window of five 20-pane lights
with incised pilasters between. Painted Row-top bressumer with
cornice. Third storey floorband of painted stone; recessed
sashes with glazing bars altered or removed; the central sash
has surround with architraves and entablature, the 2 sashes to
each side have wedge lintels. The fourth storey has 5 recessed
12-pane sashes, the central one in surround with architrave
and cornice, those to each side with painted stone sills and
wedge lintels. Full cornice of painted stone, plus parapet
course; a central ridge chimney.
An elaborate wrought-iron bracket on east Row pier. The office
has a 6-panel door to Godstall Lane.
INTERIORS: the street and Row storeys have all surfaces
covered. The stair from Godstall Lane to the third and fourth
storeys is open-string open-well with shaped brackets,
cast-iron balusters, straight moulded and ornate
figures-of-eight alternating, a swept rail with wreath on ring
of balusters on curtail step. The stair well has original
cornices and an arched niche on each landing. Skirtings, doors
of 6 margined panels, architraves, some cast-iron fireplaces
and some probably original cornices. A relatively unaltered
late Georgian interior.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street
North: 1989-1990).

Listing NGR: SJ4060166329

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656847

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (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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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014