Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/177 (South side)
10/01/72 No.20 Street and No.22 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.20 Street & No.22 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, half a bay wide, now undercroft
shop, Row shop and disused accommodation. Mid C17 and early
C19. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front, hiding timber
framing; grey slate roof, ridge at right-angle to front.
EXTERIOR: modern shopfront to street frontage, between early
fluted pilasters and plain fascia of wood. Simple cast-iron
Row-front railing; painted brick end-piers; sloped boarded
stallboard 2.05m from front to back has side showcases;
concrete flag Row walk; shopfront in Edwardian manner has
recessed glazed door of one shaped pane, panelled stallboard;
2-pane window with slender turned mullion; plaster ceiling to
stallboard and Row. One window each to third and fourth
storeys, with painted stone sills and wedge lintels, a
recessed 4-pane horned sash to the third storey and an
original recessed 9-pane sash to the fourth storey; painted
stone cornice.
INTERIOR: a glazed panel in the Row shop entrance shows an
angle brace and wattle and daub of the east party wall, in
situ, suggesting substantial presence, otherwise covered, in
Row and possibly undercroft storeys, of the C17 structure.
Early C19 cornice in Row storey; some C19 cornices in third
storey. The east wall in the fourth storey is timber-framed,
indicating that the front and back parts of the property, each
built independently, are both C17.

Listing NGR: SJ4059266278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656848

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2