Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/62 (East side)
10/01/72 No.21 Street and No.25 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No.21 Street & No.25 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, rebuilt from Row storey upward as
Row shop and living accommodation. Undercroft ceiling and
probably side-walls medieval, most likely C14; front and
probably interior of upper storeys c1800, the latter altered
and lined C20. Red-brown brick; grey slate roof with ridge at
right-angle to street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, one bay. Modern shopfront to street;
end-piers to undercroft and Row storeys are cased in wood;
cast-iron Row-front railing has bottom rail, stick balusters
and plain rail; the sloped stallboard 1.69m from front to back
and the Row walk are covered in plastic; modern shop; boxed
end-beams; a wood fascia covers the Row-front bressumer. The
upper storeys in Flemish bond have painted stone sills, wedge
lintels and a cornice beneath a low stone parapet; an 18-pane
nearly flush sash to the third storey; a recessed 15-pane sash
with horizontally-proportioned panes to the fourth storey.
INTERIOR: the undercroft has a chamfered oak beam under back
of the stallboard, stopped at south end; the south wall has a
bridging beam on 5 damaged stone corbels, carrying 10 visible
large square cross-joists, their north ends covered; the Row
and upper storeys are almost wholly lined; the fourth storey
has corner chimney-breasts and plaster cornices in the front
and second rooms; one 6-panel Georgian door.

Listing NGR: SJ4056266233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656743

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)