Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/406 (North side)
28/07/55 Nos.6 & 8 Street and Nos.6 & 8 Row
(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 offices. The front rebuilt
early C19, the rear elevation mid C18 in character, the
interior rebuilt as offices 1970s. Brown Flemish bond brick;
slate roof, ridge parallel with street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels. Modern
office front to street; brick end piers to Row; a slender
central Tuscan column supports bressumer over Row; plain
square-section iron railings; front of office to Row rebuilt;
rear passage at west; two 20-pane sashes to each upper storey,
with painted stone sills and skew-back flat brick arches;
painted cornice. The rear elevation, c1750 was restored 1970s.
It has a 6-panel door with looped radial-bar overlight in a
reconstructed pilastered timber doorcase and two 16-pane
sashes between door and rear passage; a moulded stone plinth;
a one-course stringcourse on corbel bricks set diagonally at
first floor; three 24-pane sashes to second storey; three
16-pane dwarf sashes to third storey; all sashes are flush,
with replaced timber sills and cambered brick arches;
stringcourse of 3 successively oversailing courses carries a
low stone-capped brick parapet.
INTERIOR: there are no visible internal features of interest,
but some sections of probably late medieval rubble sandstone
walling were noted in 1988.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Watergate Street: 1988-: 31).

Listing NGR: SJ4050566291

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656991

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6