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SJ4066SE
595-1/4/281

CHESTER CITY (IM)
NORTHGATE STREET
No. 19

(Formerly Listed as NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW (West side) No.19 Street, previously listed as NORTHGATE STREET (West side) No 19 Row)

10/01/72

GV
II

19 Northgate Street was built as a shop above a medieval undercroft in around 1900. It formed part of the reconstruction of a group of buildings known as ‘Shoemakers’ Row’ (3 to 31 Northgate Street) between 1897 and 1909. The redevelopment of the Row was prompted by concerns over insanitary conditions in the congested Northgate area, alongside a renewed interest in the vernacular style, and was carried out as part of a municipal road widening project at the end of the C19. It was probably designed by John Douglas, then senior partner of Douglas and Minshull architects, and is in the Vernacular Revival style. Douglas (1830-1911) was prolific across the region and acted as architect on several other buildings in the Shoemakers’ Row redevelopment and developed 5-9 Northgate Street himself. The rebuilding of Shoemakers Row lowered the ‘Row’ element of the building to just above street level and the medieval undercrofts survive below the street level and operate as cellars. The building is of sandstone and timber-frame construction with plaster panels and a grey-green slate roof.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys with a former undercroft, now a cellar.

The Row is at ground level and is two steps above the pavement. It has an arcade of three bays with two slender Tuscan columns of painted sandstone between antae.

The second storey is carried on a plain bressumer with a moulded fascia, above which are narrow and braced plaster panels. There is a central oriel window of six lights with moulded mullions and transoms, the end lights forming quadrants and the two central lights projecting further as a semi-circular bow. There is an adjoining transomed sidelight to each side.

The third storey is jettied on carved brackets and has braced panels. There are two canted oriel windows of five lights with moulded mullions on central brackets. Above each oriel is a jettied gable with two ornate quatrefoil panels and moulded bargeboards.

The rear elevation is of brick.

INTERIOR: there is medieval stonework in the rear stockroom at the Row level. The undercroft is not readily accessible and was not inspected at the time of survey.

Listing NGR: SJ4051266367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96278296

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)