Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/157 (North side)
No.25 Street and No.19 Row

GV II

Undercroft and town house, rebuilt as street shop, Row shop
and town house, now street and Row level shop, office and
flat. 1861. By TA Richardson. For Dutton and Miller, grocers.
Timber framing with plaster panels to front, English garden
wall bond brown brickwork to rear; grey slate roof. Proto
Vernacular Revival.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics, including street and Row
levels; almost symmetrical. Modern street level shopfront of
no interest; 12 stone steps to Row and Godstall Lane, west;
painted stone end-piers through street and Row storeys have
tongue-stopped hollow chamfers; ornate wood and cast-iron
Row-front railings; corbelled responds have foliar bases to
moulded capitals carrying arched beam-brackets, the responds
rising further to foliar caps of early C13 type directly
beneath the Row-front bressumer. Boarded sloped stallboard
2.05m from front to back; granolithic finish to Row walk; the
west end-pier is backed by an archway on fruit-and-foliage
corbels; the east pier fronts a brick wall above the
stallboard; C20 shopfront; plaster ceiling above stallboard
and Row walk. The bressumer has a large central
fruit-and-foliage pendant.
The third storey has a central moulded corbel carrying a
canted mullioned and transomed oriel of six 2-pane lights, the
upper panes having trefoil heads; one bay of ornately braced
small framing to each side of the oriel; carved cornice and
hipped lead roof to oriel, with fourth storey floor bressumer
showing to each side; a carved jetty-beam above the oriel roof
carries the projecting central bay with 2 cross-windows in
small-framing; each side-bay has a 1-light transomed window in
over-braced framing. The central gable has a 1-light
trefoil-headed window in framing with cusped braces; carved
bargeboards and finial. The main roof, altered to rear, has
half-gable ends; 2 steeply-pitched gabled dormers, one to each
side of front gable.
The rear has a timber-framed gazebo with pyramidal roof of
banded purple and green slates at the north end of the flat
roof at third storey floor level; the roof has a lead finial.
INTERIOR: the shop, with surfaces covered at street and Row
levels, has no visible features of special interest. The third
and fourth storeys, recently restored, retain their mid C19

character to a degree unusual in the post-medieval Row
properties. The dogleg stair has closed string, 2 turned
balusters per step, stop-chamfered newel, swept handrail and
moulded dado-rail. A pair of moulded timber Tudor arches
between the third storey landing and the front room which has
restored dado and fireplace, sill-bench in oriel, a column of
Egyptian inspiration at each jamb of oriel and an ornate
cornice; two 4-panel doors with arched upper panels. The stair
to the fourth storey, offset west from the lower stair, is
similarly detailed; cornice to landing. The fourth storey is
largely replanned; a blocked Tudor archway; 12-pane sashes to
rear.
(Transactions of the Chester Archaeological Society: Old
Series: Chester: 398 (18.11.1861)).

Listing NGR: SJ4061166333

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656851

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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