Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/393 (South side)
28/07/55 No.39 Street and Nos.47 & 49 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.39 Street & Nos.47 & 49 Row)

GV II

Town house now 2 shops and an office. Rebuilt early C18 on
undercroft, probably medieval but altered C18. Painted
sandstone; brick; slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and row levels. Street
level has end piers and 2 intermediate piers, all of stone and
chamfered; glazed double doors with fixed window of 16 panes
to each side. Row has 2 Roman Doric columns; the rail on
turned balusters is of painted wood; simple shopfront of glass
and wood, largely C20, with 6-panel door right. Frieze and
cornice to Row bressumer. 3 flush sashes to each upper storey;
those to third storey have 12 panes with thick glazing bars,
those to fourth storey are shorter, with 16 panes. Stone
sills, those to third storey on console brackets; gauged brick
flat arches to all windows, with moulded stone keystones.
Rusticated quoins; plain band at fourth storey floor level;
moulded cornice carries parapet with rusticated quoins and
moulded coping.
The rear is of brown brick in irregular bond; a later
extension at west side; replaced windows, 3 in openings with
gauged brick arches.
INTERIOR: the undercroft has walls of sandstone coursed rubble
1.4m high with a C18 brick barrel-vault over. The stair from
Row level to the third storey has added modern surfaces. The
chamber above the Row, now divided in 2, has early C18
panelling, with short panels below the dado and tall panels
above; the cornice has dentils; the panelling from the west
wall is repositioned on the east face of the inserted
partition; the sashes have panelled embrasures; the door has 6
margin panels. Other doors have 2 great panels and HL hinges.
A back room has a repositioned chamfered beam, stopped at
south end of a corner chimney-breast containing a C19
cast-iron fireplace. The oak open-well stair to the fourth
storey has open string with brackets, 3 column-on-vase
balusters to each step and a substantial swept moulded rail.
There is a 2-light leaded window to the front room; 3 doors
from the fourth storey landing, each with 2 great fielded
panels. The rooms on this storey were not inspected.

(Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC &
Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-: 30).

Listing NGR: SJ4040966230

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656996

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