Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/77 (East side)
10/01/72 No.57 Street and Nos.63 & 65 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No 57 Street & Nos 63 & 65 Row)

GV II*

Undercroft and town house, then undercroft shop, Row shop and
accommodation now used as storage. Medieval, not closely
dateable; C17, early C19 and C20. Sandstone, some timber
framing, brick; the roof is not visible.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row; one bay. Mid
C20 shopfront to street in simplified early C20 manner; 11
sandstone steps to Row, 4 repaired. Cast-iron railing to Row
front and return has circlets in double bottom rail, stick
balusters and a castellated pattern between paired top rails;
timber-cased end-posts and a cast-iron Roman Doric central
column; covered sloped stallboard 2.21m from front to back;
flagged Row walk; the simple shopfront has an added security
blind to entrance; plaster ceiling; the Row-top bressumer
behind timber fascia and cornice has Flemish bond brown
brickwork with pale headers above. 2 recessed sashes to each
upper storey, now of 4 panes, have painted stone sills and
wedge lintels; a full cornice and low parapet of painted
stone.
INTERIOR: the undercroft shop has surfaces covered; the
cross-beams are boxed; from the back a sandstone passage leads
to a medieval rear undercroft 3.7m wide and 3.47m front to
back; the west wall is the former rear wall of the medieval
front undercroft, with masonry visible south of the doorway; a
cupboard recess in the west wall; a roughly chamfered oak beam
against the north wall is probably C17.
The Row shop is lined, but with doorway to the south passage
which has a stop-chamfered cross-beam and other indications of
C17 timber framing. A dogleg stair to the third storey has
closed string, turned newel and stick balusters. The chamber
above the Row has a substantial skirting, dado rail, 2 panels
beneath each window, splayed jambs and broad architraves, a
probably cast-iron painted fireplace with Corinthian-derived
fluted pilasters and frieze beneath mantel of vine leaves in
seven round-arched panels; the ceiling has a plaster cornice
above a simple frieze; a plaster rose. The second and third
rooms have 6-panel doors; the third room has a simple
Classical timber corner fireplace, a 2-panel door on H hinges

to a small cupboard with architraves and a larger cupboard
with door of 3 broad boards; a panel of wattle is displayed in
the passage wall; a closet cupboard. The fourth room has a
door of 4 fielded panels on HL hinges, a round-arched
cast-iron grate in a C19 wood fireplace with stop-chamfered
pilasters carrying a moulded mantel on acanthus brackets. The
back room could not be inspected.
A closed-string dogleg stair to the fourth storey has turned
newels, 2 stick balusters per step and swept rail. The front
room, now divided, has a 4-panel door and a simple corner
fireplace in the south part. The second room has no features;
the third room has a 6-panel door, a cupboard door of 3 broad
boards and a 16-pane flush sash; the door to the back wing is
later C19, with 3;2;3;2 panels. the back room has a 6-panel
door and a flush sash.

Listing NGR: SJ4057566130

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552166

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper