Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET
595-1/6/234 (West side)
10/01/72 No.44

GV II

Town house, now shop, office and studio. C17 or earlier core
and front probably 1717, when the Row was enclosed.
stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick; grey slate with front
gable set back behind parapet.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. The shopfront has a replaced 2-pane
glazed door and shop window in a rendered surround probably of
stone; timber modillion cornice; old stone end-piers, the
north one rendered, rise through first and second storeys,
formerly undercroft and Row. The second, third and fourth
storeys have 2 flush sashes, each with painted stone sills and
wedge lintels of 12 square panes to second storey, 16 panes to
the third storey and 9 panes to the fourth storey. The
end-piers are unbonded through the lower two storeys, but the
third and fourth storeys have rusticated quoins. Parapet with
simple coping.
INTERIOR: the first and second storeys have chamfered
cross-beams of oak. A dogleg closed-string oak stair with
square newels, 2 substantial barleysugar balusters per step,
moulded straight rectangular rails and dado of fielded panels.
The third storey front room has 2 chamfered oak beams and a
corner chimney-breast; the rear room has an oak beam. The
open-well stair to the fourth storey is detailed similarly to
that below. The fourth storey has 2 exposed cross-beams.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge
Street West: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SJ4058465970

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656914

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  For the Record