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Number 50 Row

A Grade II Listed Building in Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1905 / 53°11'25"N

Longitude: -2.8895 / 2°53'22"W

OS Eastings: 340663

OS Northings: 366304

OS Grid: SJ406663

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.30LN

Mapcode Global: WH88F.L28F

Plus Code: 9C5V54R6+65

Entry Name: Number 50 Row

Listing Date: 28 July 1955

Last Amended: 6 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1376243

English Heritage Legacy ID: 470237

Also known as: 50, Eastgate Street

ID on this website: 101376243

Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Chester

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Chester, St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description



CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/185 (South side)
28/07/55 No.50 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.50 Row)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.52 Row EASTGATE STREET.
Shop and offices on site of former town house. Rebuilt 1963-65
with facsimile facade, to Eastgate Street only, of the former
early C18 building. Brown brick in English garden wall bond
with grey slate roof at right-angle to front.
4 storeys of one bay; the Row walk descends to street level at
east of frontage. Plinths of cream stone carry end piers with
Roman Doric responds; 2 intermediate columns; plain
stone-faced frieze and band above Row opening. Rusticated
quoins to upper storeys; nearly flush 12-pane horned sashes
with minuscule sills and gauged brick flat arches, 3 to the
second storey and one each to the third and fourth storeys;
moulded string courses at third and fourth storey floors;
shaped gable with moulded stone coping and pineapple finial.
INTERIOR: entirely rebuilt 1963-1965 by Sir Percy Thomas and
Son as part of the Grosvenor-Laing precinct.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ4066366304

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