Listed Building: NUMBER 9 ROW | NUMBER 9 STREET (1376058)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/57 (East side) 10/01/72 No.9 Street and No.9 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.9 Street & No.9 Row) GV II Undercroft and town house, now undercroft shop, Row shop and storage. Medieval, late C17 to early C18, c1840 and C20. Sandstone, rendered brick, grey slate roof having ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys including undercroft and Row; one bay. Modern shopfront to street; sandstone end piers continuous through undercroft and Row storeys. Cast-iron railing to Row front with ornate spear-heads; cast-iron central column; boarded sloped stallboard 2.03m from front to back; flagged Row walk; altered shopfront; shop fascia hides Row-front bressumer. Each rendered brick upper storeys has 2 recessed sashes, of 4 panes with painted stone sillband to the third storey, 16 panes with painted stone sills to the fourth storey and with painted stone sills, 8 pane lower leaves and 4-pane upper leaves to the fifth storey; the lintels are not expressed; moulded eaves cornice; coped gables. INTERIOR: in the undercroft most surfaces are lined, but some medieval stonework is visible in the rear wall. At Row level surfaces are covered and the stair replaced. The third storey has 2 probably late C17 chamfered cross-beams with lambs tongue stops, painted, and one covered beam; a damaged reeded plaster cornice; the rear room has similar stop-chamfered beams; the ceiling panels have reeded margins and moulded fleur-de-lys at corners; the stone hearth-base of the corner fireplace in the room above is visible. A damaged open-well closed-string oak stair to the fourth and fifth storeys has square newels, some altered, 2 substantial barleysugar balusters per step, broad boards on quarter landings and moulded rail altered in parts. The fourth storey front room has a Classical corner fireplace with pilasters and a damaged overmantel panel; the middle and back rooms have corner fireplaces. The fifth storey has a painted oak door of 7 roughly-fielded panels, probably late C17, to the front room which has a stone fireplace and mantel. The interior suggests a medieval undercroft to a town house substantially rebuilt c1700 and refronted c1840. Listing NGR: SJ4054266256