Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/390 (South side)
28/07/55 No.25 Street & No.29 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.25 Street & No.29 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, in October 1991 undercroft shop,
shop at Row level and storey immediately above, with vacant
fourth storey. Probably late medieval rebuilt from Row level
upward early C19. Sandstone and brown brick; grey slate roof,
ridge at right-angle to front.
4 storeys including street and Row levels, of one bay. Late
C20 shopfront to street; altered mid C19 shopfront to Row has
3 cross-shaped panels beneath 12-pane window with overlight, a
door of a cross-shaped panel beneath 6 panes, east; rear
passage, west. Slender, moulded cast-iron balustrade to Row
front. One sash centrally placed with plain sill and wedge
lintel of painted stone to each upper storey, of 20 panes to
third storey and 16 panes to fourth storey. The painted
moulded cornice is probably plaster. The 3-storey brick rear
has flush gable; 3 chimneys on east side.
INTERIOR: the undercroft 27.1 x 4.4m is of probably late
medieval masonry of relatively poor quality. The upper storeys
are, as far as could be seen, wholly C19.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-: 29).

Listing NGR: SJ4044966246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656994

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)