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Latitude: 53.1902 / 53°11'24"N
Longitude: -2.8912 / 2°53'28"W
OS Eastings: 340551
OS Northings: 366274
OS Grid: SJ405662
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.306Q
Mapcode Global: WH88F.K2GM
Plus Code: 9C5V54R5+3G
Entry Name: Number 6 Row Number 8 Street
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376211
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470205
Also known as: 8 Eastgate Street, Chester
ID on this website: 101376211
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester, St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/171 (South side)
10/01/72 No.8 Street and No.6 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.8 Street and No.6 Row)
GV II
Undercroft and town house, rebuilt early C19 as undercroft
shop, Row shop and accommodation, now shop and storage. Ashlar
yellow sandstone with hipped grey slate roof, ridge parallel
with front.
The shopfront to the street has a round arch to each side of a
broader segmental arch, all stop-chamfered; a shaped 1-pane
glazed door in the west arch; 1-pane windows in the other
arches. The tall Row-opening has ornate panelled cast-iron
railing, painted end-piers perhaps of stone with inset wooden
panels, sloped boarded stallboard 1.5m from front to back,
covered Row walk and modern shopfront of no interest;
cornices; ceiling covered. Painted timber entablature over Row
opening has lion-heads at corners of frieze and dentils to
cornice; the ashlar stonework is exposed to each side of
pilastered front, and to the third and fourth storeys. The
third storey has 3 altered sashes in recessed architraves; the
fourth storey has 3 recessed 12-pane sashes in simple openings
with deep sills on cyma corbels; stone cornice and parapet
course. Brick lateral chimney, set back west.
INTERIOR: 5 steps down to undercroft; masonry in cupboard
behind shop-window, east, may indicate medieval party wall.
Other surfaces in shop at undercroft and Row levels are
covered.
Listing NGR: SJ4055166274
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