Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/158 (North side)
10/01/72 No.27 Street and No.21 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.27 Street & No.21 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now street shop and Row shop.
Rebuilt early C18, extended to rear early C19 and refurbished
at front mid C19. Painted stone-dressed brick, in Flemish bond
to front; roof concealed.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of one bay, including street and Row
levels. 2 free-standing cast-iron columns with moulded bases
and capitals of C13 form in front of recessed street-level
shopfront with carved 1-pane window to each side of double
door with a glazed panel above a short fielded panel; painted
stone end-piers through street and Row storeys; cast-iron
spearhead railings and 2 columns to the Row-front, with
similar responds against the end-piers; covered sloped
stallboard 2.1m from front to back, with painted stone
end-walls; covered surface to Row-walk; probably early C18
chamfered cross-beam above rear of stallboard; modern
shopfront of no interest.
Moulded bressumer to Row opening; the third and fourth storeys
have rusticated quoins of painted stone. The windows are
probably in C18 openings, but with mid C19 Jacobethan
embellishment: stone sills, long-and-short work jambs and
cornices crowned with strapwork; the third storey has two
6-pane sashes, the fourth storey a broad window of three
3-pane sashes, all recessed. Moulded parapet beneath a shaped
central gable with Chester City arms on a Jacobethan
cartouche, flanked to each side between a pair of panelled
stone pilasters. Moulded stone coping to gable and parapets.
INTERIOR: the street and Row level shops, with surfaces lined,
have no visible features of interest. The third storey,
divided by a modern partition, has a sub-panel and architrave
to each window, a covered fireplace in breast on west wall and
a ceiling formerly of 3 panels, now 2, having cross-beams with
moulded arrises and cornices. The rear room has a blocked
corner fireplace with stone hearth, a chamfered beam stopped
to west and covered to east and a 12-pane sash. The early C18
open-well stair is intact between third and fourth storeys,
with closed string, capped square newels, 2 stout barleysugar
balusters per step and a moulded rail of early C18 section.

The rear wing behind the light-well, probably formerly a
separate subsidiary dwelling, has 16-pane sashes. The fourth
storey front room has a single panel beneath the broad window
and a replaced fireplace in a corner breast. The second room,
lit by a skylight, has a door of 2 panels to the outer face
and with 4 battens and a middle stile to the inner face, on
old long hinges. The back room in the main block has corner
fireplace with moulded sandstone mantel. A closet has a
2-panel door. The rear wing has a 6-panel door and a 9-pane
sash. The stair has a 16-pane sash.

Listing NGR: SJ4061866336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656857

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)