Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/185 (South side)
28/07/55 No.50 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
No.50 Row)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.52 Row EASTGATE STREET.
Shop and offices on site of former town house. Rebuilt 1963-65
with facsimile facade, to Eastgate Street only, of the former
early C18 building. Brown brick in English garden wall bond
with grey slate roof at right-angle to front.
4 storeys of one bay; the Row walk descends to street level at
east of frontage. Plinths of cream stone carry end piers with
Roman Doric responds; 2 intermediate columns; plain
stone-faced frieze and band above Row opening. Rusticated
quoins to upper storeys; nearly flush 12-pane horned sashes
with minuscule sills and gauged brick flat arches, 3 to the
second storey and one each to the third and fourth storeys;
moulded string courses at third and fourth storey floors;
shaped gable with moulded stone coping and pineapple finial.
INTERIOR: entirely rebuilt 1963-1965 by Sir Percy Thomas and
Son as part of the Grosvenor-Laing precinct.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ4066366304

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656866

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)