Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/52 (West side) 10/01/72 No.46 Street and No.46 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No 46 Street & No 48 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, probably 1760s, demolished for redevelopment as part of a department store late C19. Facade of third and fourth storeys a facsimile of the Georgian front; buff sandstone and painted brick; grey slate roof at right-angle to street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 2 broad bays. Modern shopfronts to street between sandstone central pier and end-piers with corbels, grotesque heads and gabled setbacks to Row piers. The Row front has piers with impost bands and wrought-iron railings with spear-headed principal balusters, serpentine common balusters and scroll-ornamented double rail; no stallboard; granolithic Row walk; rendered rear wall to Row has blocked 4-panel door probably to former passage, modern glazed door, flush tripartite sash of 8;12;8 panes, former doorway rendered over and a tripartite sash of 8;12;8 panes; panelled soffit to bressumer; plastered ceiling; moulded cornice to bressumer. The upper storeys are of painted English garden wall bond brickwork with rusticated quoins, flush sashes, 6 per storey, with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with cornices to keystones, of 15 panes to the third storey and 12 panes to the fourth storey; stone cornice with dentils and modillions; brick parapet with stone plinth, 4 brick pilasters and stone cap. The rear has a plain C20 extension. INTERIOR has no visible features of interest. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-).



Listing NGR: SJ4053466133

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)