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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/414 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.48 & 50 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET Nos.48 AND 50)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now shop and photographer's premises, with the storey above vacant in October 1991. Medieval; early C18; Row enclosed C18; refronted early C19. Brown Flemish bond brick; a tall parapet conceals the grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. The shop in the former undercroft has an altered C19 front with a recessed part glazed 3-panel door and a window of 3 panes with a terminal pilaster; the tall recessed porch, far left, contains 12 steps to a door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels at former Row level. The Row storey has a 2-pane sash set proud of the wall-face, and a facia and cornice at the former bressumer level. The third storey has a canted oriel with a 2-pane sash above a boarded cheek on each face, and with an ornate cast-iron cresting. The fourth storey has a 2-course brick string at floor level, two 4-pane sashes and a stone-coped parapet. The rear gable end has a 12-pane sash a small inserted window to each of the 2 lower storeys, with a corbelled 2-course brick string and a 16-pane sash above; the gable is stone-coped with a chimney at the north west corner. INTERIOR: the medieval west wall to the undercroft is visible, of painted coursed sandstone rubble; there are 5 large chamfered oak cross-beams. The Row storey has a part-glazed inner hall door; the front room has a door with a glazed panel above a pair of smaller panels; early C18 wall panelling with one row of panels beneath the dado rail and tall panels and a cornice above it; the chimney breast has an overmantel of one large panel above a pair of small ones, set between full-height fluted pilasters; part of a Tuscan pillar of the former Row front is visible in the west embrasure of the window. The back room has a 6-panel door, covered to the hall, and panelling which is largely covered above the dado. The dogleg newel stair to the third storey has 2 plump vase balusters to each step; the third storey front room has a cornice and a moulded plaster beam. The stair rises in an open well to the fourth storey, where the rooms have 2-panel doors.



Listing NGR: SJ4039066256

External Links

• Wikidata Q26656998

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