Listed Building: NUMBER 1 ROW | NUMBER 2-8 STREET | NUMBERS 1 AND 3 STREET | NUMBERS 2-6 AND 8 (PART) ROW (1376056)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE 595-1/4/36 BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (West side) Nos.2-8 (even) Street and Nos.2-6 (even) & 8 (part) Row (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No 1 Street & No 1 Row) (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET Nos 2-8 (even) Street & Nos 2-8 (even) Row) (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No 3 Street & No 3 Row) 10/01/72 GV II* Includes: Nos.1 & 3 Street and Nos.1 & 3 Row WATERGATE STREET AND ROW. 6 town houses with shops, now offices. 1892. By TM Lockwood. For 1st Duke of Westminster. Yellow sandstone and red Ruabon brick with blue diapering flanked by timber framing with plaster panels; brown clay tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street level and Row; 4 bays to Bridge Street, 3 to Watergate Street; canted corner to street junction, with stone steps to Row. 2 bays to each street next to corner are ashlar to lower 2 storeys and stone-dressed brick above. Arcade to Row has one round and one elliptical arch to Bridge Street and 2 elliptical arches to Watergate Street; Renaissance architraves, moulded bands, pediments and cartouches; one shaped gable to each street. Outer bay to Watergate Street, top storey of third bay and upper 2 storeys of fourth bay to Bridge Street have close studding of oak, jetties to each storey and herringbone struts to gables; richly carved frieze, console brackets and grotesque heads. Oak-framed hip-roofed porch at Row level before No.3 Watergate Street shelters S-shaped stair to street. Row to Nos 2 & 4 Bridge Street has splat balusters, all other bays have wooden turned vase balusters, painted. Modern shopfronts to both streets and to No.2 Row. 5 Row casements, partly leaded, and 4 part-glazed panelled doors in panelled cases. Upper-storey in brick walls have moulded stone surrounds, mullions and transoms; oriel windows on oak-framed walls, some with round-arched middle lights; all windows leaded. Cast-iron rainwater-heads, pipes and brackets. A wrought-iron sign bracket to each street, that to Watergate Street having bronze eagle's head. Rears not visible. INTERIORS much altered. Open-well stair in No.6 Bridge Street; some good fireplaces; 6-panel doors; cornices. The most satisfying of TM Lockwood's many buildings in Chester. Listing NGR: SJ4050866259