Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/50 (West side)
No.42 Street and No.42 Row

GV II

Undercroft and town house. Rebuilt c1720, extended to rear and
refaced to Bridge Street c1860. Sandstone and brick, painted,
with grey slate roof at right-angle to street.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys. The C19 rear extension was probably a
separate dwelling; now an undercroft shop, a Row level shop, a
third storey office and a flat in the fourth storey and attic.
Wooden shopfront to street in later C19 manner has panelled
end-pilasters, recessed central margin-paned door with window
having a quadrant pane and a flat pane to each side. The Row
front has a cast-iron rail on stick balusters; painted
sandstone end-piers; narrow boarded stallboard; boarded Row
walk; rendered rear wall to Row has door of 2 flush panels, 2
field panels and 2 plain panels with a 2-pane overlight in
architrave; shutters on gudgeon hinges to a tripartite sash of
8; 12; 8 panes; boxed beam at each end; plain bressumer. The
upper storeys are of painted brickwork; brick band at each
floor; recessed sashes with moulded stone sills and cambered
gauged-brick heads, a tripartite sash of 4; 8; 4 panes to the
third storey and fourth storey, a 16-pane sash to the attic
storey; coped gable; 2 chimneys on north wall, that towards
rear of 2 builds.
The long 3-storey rear wing, blank to the north, has a later
one-storey lean-to-roofed outshut behind with 2 camber-arched
brick-silled 9-pane windows of large scantling above; plain
verge on projecting band of 3 brick courses.
INTERIOR: the undercroft and Row storey display no visible
features of special interest. A replaced one-flight stair to
the third storey retains a shaped top newel of late C17
character; door of 6 fielded panels, the central pair being
short, to the front room which has panelled walls with one row
beneath the dado and one above; replaced fireplace; panelled
window-shutters fold back against the wing walls; plaster
cornice. The rear room has similar wall panelling and cornice
and a replaced fireplace in a corner chimneybreast. The stair
to the fourth storey, around a narrow stairwell, has square
shaped newels of late C17 character; a closed string, 2
twisted-column-on-vase balusters per step and a softwood
handrail. The fourth storey and attic could not be inspected.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4052866153

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Number 42 Row/Number 42 Street official website
• Wikidata Q26656753

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)