Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/79 (East side)
28/07/55 No.63 Street and No.75 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
No.63 Street & No.75 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, largely rebuilt as undercroft shop,
Row shop and accommodation now used as storage. Medieval
elements not now visible, c1760, altered C20. Flemish bond
brown brick with grey slate roof, ridge at right-angle to
street and hipped to front.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row; one bay.
Modern shopfront to street; brick end-piers through undercroft
and Row storeys, the lower parts rendered; timber Row-front
rail on stick balusters; sloped boarded stallboard 1.63m front
to back; flagged Row walk; shopfront c1850 has later recessed
glazed door with sub-panel, panelled stall-risers and end
pilasters, moulded sills, slim cylindrical mullions with
fluted bases and caps, rounded top corners of panes with
carved spandrels and a moulded cornice. The brick upper
storeys, detailed as Nos 71 & 73 Row (qv), have one original
flush 12-pane sash to third storey and a 9-pane sash to the
fourth storey; painted stone sill to third storey; sillband to
fourth storey; rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones;
painted stone full cornice; tall brick parapet with plain cap;
a lateral chimney, north; the south return of English garden
wall brickwork has a 9-pane flush sash to the fourth storey.
INTERIOR: the undercroft is lined, but has C18 cross-beams and
was observed during refurbishment to have a medieval south
wall; the upper storeys are lined.

Listing NGR: SJ4057666110

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656768

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]