Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/64 (East side)
10/01/72 Nos.25 & 27 Street and Nos.29 & 31
Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
Nos.25 & 27 Street & Nos.29 & 31 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now undercroft office, Row shop and
storage. The present front c1800, altered 1930s office front
to street. Sandstone and Flemish bond brown brick; roof not
visible.
EXTERIOR: 12 concrete-repaired sandstone steps to Row, north;
painted stone end-piers, partly covered, through undercroft
and Row; cast-iron railing to Row-front and return to steps
has central rail intersecting figures of 8 on alternate
balusters; plain top rail; cast-iron Roman Doric central
column; sloped boarded stallboard 1.74m from front to back;
terrazzo-tiled Row walk; modern shopfront; plaster ceiling; a
fascia covers the Row-top bressumer. The brick upper storeys
have painted stone sills and wedge lintels; the third storey
recessed north sash has glazing-bars removed; an inserted
5-light large-pane mullioned and transomed canted oriel,
south, on timber sub-panels, has dentilled sill on 3 shaped
brackets and dentilled cornice to flat roof; the fourth storey
has a dual sash with glazing bars removed, north, and a now
4-pane sash, south; a lead rainwater pipe and head, south;
painted stone cornice and low parapet; a lateral south chimney
at back.
INTERIOR: the undercroft, lowered and altered for newspaper
press, has 2 cast-iron Roman Doric columns, timber beams and
joists. the Row and upper storeys are largely lined and
display no features of special interest.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street East: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4055666218

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656744

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