Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/73 (East side)
10/01/72 Nos.45 & 47 Street and Nos.51, 53 &
55 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No 45 Street & No 51 Row)
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No 47 Street & Nos 53 & 55 Row)

GV II

2 street-level shops, 2 Row shops and accommodation, now 2
street-level shops, one Row shop and storage. Early to mid
C19, altered. Flemish bond brown brickwork with grey slate
roof, ridge at right-angle to street, hipped to front.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street level and Row; 2 bays.
Modern shopfronts to street. The Row front has brick end-piers
and central pier, a tapered cast-iron Doric column at the
centre of each bay and a simple cast-iron railing with stick
balusters and plain rail; sloped boarded stallboard 2.22m from
front to back; flagged Row walk; shopfronts in early C20
manner with panelled timber stallriser to Nos 53 & 55 and
windows with slender moulded mullions, rounded upper corners
to panes and carved spandrels; plaster ceiling to No.51 and
panelled plaster ceiling to Nos 53 & 55; wood fascia to
Row-top bressumer. Painted stone sills and cambered false
wedge lintels to altered 2-pane recessed sashes, 2 to the
third storey and 4 to the fourth storey; the third storey of
Nos 53 & 55 has an altered inserted canted barge-pane timber
oriel. Lateral chimney set back, north.
INTERIOR: No.45 Street is a butcher's shop with early C20
tiling and office; other shops and the upper storeys have no
visible features of special interest.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4057166158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656756

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