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SJ4066SE
595-1/4/57

CHESTER CITY (IM)
BRIDGE STREET
No 9

AND

BRIDGE STREET ROW EAST
No 9

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (East side) No.9 Street and No.9 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.9 Street & No.9 Row)

10/01/72

GV
II

Number 9 Bridge Street and 9 Bridge Street Row East comprises a medieval undercroft below a Row shop and three storey former townhouse of probable late-C17 origin. The upper storeys were re-fronted in around 1840 and have a rendered façade. Medieval masonry survives at the rear of the undercroft and includes a chamber, 4.33m in length, of stone construction. The Row and undercroft shops were in separate occupancy in the late C19 and early C20, with a grocers in the undercroft in 1878, becoming a fishmongers by 1902, and the Row shop being a hairdressers and then a drapers. In 2023, the undercroft shop was a travel agents with a retail shop to the Row. The use of the upper storeys was not known. The building is constructed of sandstone and rendered brick. It has a grey slate roof with its ridge parallel with the street.

EXTERIOR: the building is of five storeys including an undercroft and Row level.
At street level there is a modern shopfront to the undercroft and sandstone end piers which are continuous through the undercroft and Row storeys.

The Row has cast-iron railings with ornate spear-heads and a cast-iron central column to the front opening. There is a boarded sloped stallboard measuring 2.03m from front to back, a flagged Row walkway and an altered shopfront. A shop fascia sign hides the Row-front bressumer.

The upper storeys are of rendered brick. Each storey has two recessed sash windows. Those to the third storey are of two-over-two panes and have a painted stone sillband. There are eight-over-eight pane sashes to the fourth storey with painted stone sills. The fifth storey windows have painted stone sills, eight-pane lower leaves and four-pane upper leaves. None of the lintels are expressed. The eaves have a moulded cornice and coped gables.

INTERIOR: in the undercroft most of the surfaces are lined, but some medieval stonework is visible in the rear wall.
At Row level the surfaces are covered and the stair has been replaced.
The third storey has two chamfered cross-beams with lambs tongue stops, probably of the late C17, which have been painted, and one covered beam. There is a damaged reeded plaster cornice and the rear room has similar stop-chamfered beams. The ceiling panels have reeded margins and moulded fleur-de-lys at the corners. The stone hearth-base of the corner fireplace in the room above is visible.

There is a damaged open-well closed-string oak stair to the fourth and fifth storeys. This has square newels, some of which have been altered, two substantial barley-sugar balusters per step, broad boards on the quarter landings and a moulded rail which has been altered in parts. The fourth storey front room has a Classical corner fireplace with pilasters and a damaged overmantel panel. The middle and back rooms have corner fireplaces. The fifth storey has a painted oak door of seven roughly-fielded panels, probably of the late-C17, to the front room which has a stone fireplace and mantel. The interior suggests that the medieval undercroft and town house was substantially rebuilt in around 1700 and then re-fronted in around 1840.

Listing NGR: SJ4054266256

External Links

• Wikidata Q26656734

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)