Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/170 (South side)
No.6 Street and No.4 Row

GV II

Undercroft and town house, rebuilt as undercroft shop, Row
shop and accommodation. Probably 1830s. Red sandstone and
brown brick; hipped grey slate roof, ridge at right-angle to
front.
4 storeys of one bay, including undercroft and Row. Modern
shopfront to street; 7 repaired sandstone steps to Row walk;
red sandstone end-piers through undercroft and Row storeys.
Ornate cast-iron Row-front railing; sloped and stepped
diagonally boarded stallboard 1.6m from front to back; boarded
Row walk; modern shopfront; the capitals of the end-piers, of
Classical derivation, support coved stone brackets to the
bressumer; plaster ceiling with soffits of joists exposed. The
Row-top bressumer is covered. The third storey has a pair of
Edwardian square 4-light oriels with patterned lead glazing
above transoms, separated by a basket arch, all of painted
timber, with base-beams, friezes and cornices. The fourth
storey has 2 cross-windows with painted stone sills and wedge
lintels; moulded stringcourse; 2 brick courses; moulded
cornice and parapet course of painted brick; lateral chimney,
east.
INTERIOR: the restaurant at undercroft and Row levels has been
lined.

Listing NGR: SJ4054666273

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656838

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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