Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET
595-1/6/243 (West side)
28/07/55 Nos.86 AND 88
Ye Olde Edgar

GV II

Inn, now 2 houses. Probably late C16, restored and altered.
Timber frame partly replaced in brick; plaster panels; grey
slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys of 2 deep bays. The first storey is
largely painted brick, but with brackets north and south and a
repaired heavy gently-curving north-east corner bracket
formerly rising from pavement to jetty. Replaced mullioned and
transomed casements, proud of the wall on brackets, one of 3
lights, one of 2 lights and one of 3 lights, and a
repositioned doorway with part-glazed door, south, to Lower
Bridge Street. The jetty-bressumer to each front carries
round-ended joists with sole-plate above. The second storey
has lightish close-studding to Lower Bridge Street and to
Shipgate street, north, with no intermediate rail; 2 mullioned
5-light casements on brackets have leaded glazing; 2
timber-framed blank gables; that to No.88 suggests there was
formerly a narrow gap between the 2 houses; a tall brick
chimney set back, just north of the valley, and a chimney
further back.
The front to Shipgate Street has a bracket to the jetty, a
1-light window, a part-glazed door and a 3-light mullioned and
transomed casement to the first storey; a 2-light leaded
mullioned and transomed casement to each main bay of the
second storey and one to the pebbledashed rear bay; the attic
storey has a 4-light mullioned leaded casement in each of the
2 timber-framed gabled dormers. The rear is clad in brick, C19
or C20.
INTERIOR could not be inspected. Plans show cellars under
No.88.

Listing NGR: SJ4063765854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ye Olde Edgar at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8050758

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