Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/382 (South side)
10/01/72 Nos.5 & 7 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
Nos 5 & 7 Street & Nos 5 & 7 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now 2 undercroft shops, a double
Row shop and 2 vacant storeys. C15 or later, largely rebuilt
as town house and shops 1803 and later. Sandstone and brown
brick; grey slate roof not visible from front.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, including street and Row levels; 2 main
bays. 2 modern shopfronts to street; shopfront of earlier C20
character with door near centre to Row. Brick piers with
plastered inner faces, with painted octagonal column at centre
of each bay of Row; wooden rail on stick balusters; 4-panel
doors to upper storeys left of No.5 and right of No.7. 16-pane
sash to third storey of No.7; 4-pane sash to third storey of
No.5 and one to each bay of fourth storey. Flat gauged brick
heads to third storey windows; simple cambered heads to fourth
storey. Plain brick gable chimney at each end. Cast-iron
rainwater head, pipe and brackets; upper bracket dated 1803.
Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: late medieval rubble sandstone walling to undercroft
of No.5, with inserted brick barrel-vault, probably C18; 2
chamfered oak beams, the first approximately 4 feet behind
shopfront. Chimney breast on right wall, behind second beam; 2
replaced beams further back; blocked stair with stone treads
and brick risers against west wall formerly led to Row storey.
The structure of the undercroft to No.7 is hidden. No visible
features of interest at Row level; the upper storeys could not
be inspected, but are stated to have been gutted.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Archive for Watergate Street 2-3: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SJ4049266263

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656990

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6