Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/391 (South side)
28/07/55 No.35 Street & No.43 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.35 Street & No.43 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house then 2 shops and accommodation, now
shop and restaurant. Possibly late medieval refaced and
largely rebuilt internally from Row level up 1890 for Charles
Brown, probably by TM Lockwood. Sandstone, timber frame and
brick; grey slate roof gabled to front and rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; one bay. C20 shopfront to
street. Row shopfront, now to restaurant, of timber has 3
basket arches with fluted pilasters, the entrance altered
within the central arch; to each side a 3-panel stallboard and
window. The Row front has timber rail on barleysugar
balusters; sloped boarded stallboard; granolithic Row walk;
side wall to west exposed to back passage in No.45 Row (qv)
has probably late medieval stonework under later brickwork,
painted. Central and end posts to bressumer over Row front,
with shaped brackets; slightly jettied fascia inscribed IN THE
LORD IS MY STRENGTH. The close-studded third storey has a
projecting mullioned and transomed 7-light casement, now with
no glazing bars; 3 angled braces to each side of casement
above eaves level; jetty beam above has cartouche inscribed :
1890 : B; three ornate quadrant-braced panels; herringbone
bracing in apex of gable; bargeboards; ornate hollow finial.
The rear is hidden by a C20 extension.
INTERIOR: a chamfered beam in third storey on an inserted
timber corbel, west; a king-post truss in fourth storey has
possibly C17 timbers. Most visible features are C19.
At the back of a sunken rear yard attached to the building,
the base of a Roman column in situ shows that the Roman ground
level was one metre higher than the undercroft floor.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-; Improvement
Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 25/6/1890).

Listing NGR: SJ4042066239

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656995

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)