Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/179 (South side)
28/07/55 No.24 Street and No.30 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
Nos 22 & 24 Street & Nos 24-30
(even) Row)

GV II

Undercroft shop, Row shop and accommodation now storage.
Rebuilt late C19 on site of former undercroft and town house.
Timber-framed front with plaster panels; brick to rear; grey
slate roof at right-angle to front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys including undercroft and Row, plus attic.
The street-level shopfront is a continuation of that to No.22
Street (qv), as is the soffit to the kiosk above in front of
the Row walk, with small sgraffiti in plaster panels. The Row
walk and Row shopfront have no features of special interest.
The third storey, directly above the face of the Row-front
kiosk, has broad, probably false, end and central posts, 2
canted 3-light oriels with mullions, transoms and semicircular
panes with keyblocks above transoms of central lights; a
close-studded panel to each side of each oriel, with a cross
rail. The gable, jettied on 3 shaped brackets, has a row of 12
shaped panels, a pair of 2-light mullioned leaded casements
with curved herringbone bracing to each side and a jettied
collar with straight herringbone struts above; moulded
bargeboards and finial; small-framed east return.
INTERIOR: the shops have all features covered. The upper rooms
could not be inspected, but the third storey is stated to have
plan and some doors and mouldings intact and the attic to have
no features of special interest; the visible features of the
cellar late C19 and C20.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street
South: 1989-1990).

Listing NGR: SJ4060066282

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656850

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)