Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/405 (North side)
28/07/55 Nos.2 & 4 Street and Nos.2 & 4 Row
(Victoria Public House)
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
Nos 2-10 (even) Street & Nos 2-8
(even) Row incl. Victoria Hotel &
Deva Hotel)

GV II

2 undercrofts and town houses, now 2 shops in undercrofts and
Victoria Public House on Row and upper storeys. Undercrofts
probably of medieval origin with some stonework visible; C17
timber-framed upper structure clad in brown brickwork early
C19; rendered to rear; grey slate roof; with ridge parallel
with road over front portion.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels. Altered
painted stone piers at each end through street and Row levels.
Modern shopfronts to street, of no character. A pair of
slender Tuscan columns support the dentilled bressumer over
the Row front; plain square-section iron railings; the public
house frontage behind the Row walk is rebuilt, with white
render and varnished woodwork. Rear passage, west, to St
Peter's Church Yard. Windows to third and fourth storeys
replaced in existing openings by tripartite small-pane metal
casements, 2 per storey and narrower on fourth than third
storey. A rear chimney.
The rear has a full-width gable with later additions; features
are altered or hidden by render.
INTERIOR: the structure of the undercrofts is concealed except
for a short length of sandstone rubble wall; the dimensions,
4.01 x 12.84m and 4.28 x 12.62m, suggest medieval origin. At
Row level one uncut beam and altered joists are exposed over
the central bar. There is a corner fireplace in the rear
corner of the west front room and an adjoining altered chimney
breast in the rear corner of the front east room, probably
c1720; a dogleg stair in a timber-framed stairwell adjoins
each side wall, visible between the third and fourth storeys.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-: 31).

Listing NGR: SJ4051466293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656989

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