Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/279 (West side)
10/01/72 Nos.11 & 13 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
(West side)
Nos 11 & 13 Row)

GV II

A store of 2 bays. Medieval undercrofts with structure above
dated 1900. By John Douglas, of Douglas and Minshull. For JF
Denson and Sons, with some later alterations. Cast-iron,
timber framing with plaster panels, grey-green slate roof.
EXTERIOR: undercroft and 2 storeys with rear wing partly of 3
storeys plus cellar and attic. The Row, 2 steps above pavement
level and probably below the medieval Row level, has a 2-bay
arcade of hollow posts, with fronts carved in late C16 manner,
concealing cast-iron or steel columns on red sandstone bases
which carry non-structural richly-carved segmental arches of
painted timber on carved brackets; the fascia to the bressumer
has a carved cornice. The second storey has full-width leaded
glazing above a row of shaped timber-framed panels; the
glazing to each bay has a 7-light bowed oriel flanked by
paired lights right and left, all with moulded mullions and
transom; richly-carved open-work skirts beneath oriels and
beneath the 2 jettied gables at their heads; consoles support
the gable-feet; each gable has 2 rows of ornate quatrefoil
panels; carved bargeboards. The taller rear wing has a single
slate-hung gable.
The rear is brick with plain slightly recessed wooden
casements.
INTERIOR: sandstone medieval undercrofts with a rectangular
pier central on No.11 and a former access either to the rear
or an upper storey; the first storey has moulded cast-iron
columns; the second storey is an open sales floor with a
full-width panelled plaster barrel-vault and rooflights in
canted rectangular wells.
Nos 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as `Saddler's Row' and
were previously listed as Row numbers.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Northgate Street:
1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4051766350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96278298

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living