Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/159 (North side) 10/01/72 No.29 Street and No.23 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.29 Street & No.23 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now street shop & Row shop. Rebuilt from Row level upward probably mid C18 and altered early C19 and C20. Painted stone-dressed brickwork, Flemish bond to front; roof not visible. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of one bay, including street and Row levels. Modern street-level shopfront of no interest covers the lower part of end piers shown at Row level as painted rusticated stone. Early C19 cast-iron Row-front railings; stallboard 1.9m from front to back has surface covered and painted side-walls, probably of stone; the surface of the Row walk is covered; a segmental arch at each end; the shopfront to the Row, domestic in form, has window with glazing bars removed and a painted stone doorcase with eaved architrave and cornice; plaster ceiling with moulded cornice; moulded capitals to end-piers; bressumer covered. The third and fourth storeys have painted stone rusticated quoins. The third storey has a tripartite recessed sash formerly of 4;12;4 panes, with bars removed from lower leaf of central sash, in a stone case, unfortunately painted, with panelled plinth carrying panelled end-pilasters and square mullions, and frieze and cornice. The fourth storey floorband has thin rustication; the 3;9;3 pane tripartite sash has a painted stone case on four cyma corbels, eared architrave and pedimental head. Painted stone frieze and cornice with plain pedimental coping. INTERIOR: surfaces in the street shop, a restaurant when inspected, are covered, with no datable features exposed. The front room at Row level has door architrave and cornice; the rear room is stripped. The open-well stair has open string, replaced newels, 2 column-on-vase balusters per step and a swept rail, all painted; cornices under the stair and to landings. The third storey has cornices, architraves and a 16-pane sash to the rear. The fourth storey has a front-room cornice and 2 simple fireplaces; other features stripped.



Listing NGR: SJ4062366336

External Links

• Wikidata Q26656858

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)