Listed Building: NUMBER 13 STREET | NUMBERS 13 AND 15 ROW (1376064)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/59 (East side) 10/01/72 No.13 Street and Nos.13 & 15 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No 13 Street & No 15 Row) GV II Undercroft shop, Row shop and former accommodation and rear dwelling now used as offices. 1861. By Edward Hodkinson. For Mr Ewen, hosier. Sandstone, painted English garden wall bond brickwork and grey slate roof with ridge at right angle to street. EXTERIOR: 4 tall storeys including undercroft and Row; one bay; Tudor Revival. C20 shopfront to street; hollow-chamfered sandstone end-piers to undercroft and Row storeys. The heavy Row-front balustrade has a moulded timber rail on spiral-moulded balusters; half-octagon responds carry a possibly reused C17 chamfered bressumer on quadrant brackets with mouchettes in spandrels and end-pendants; sloped boarded stallboard; flagged Row walk; frontage to rear of Row has covered door to No.13 and a modern shopfront unoccupied in August 1990 when inspected; a basket arch, now splatterdashed, across each end of Row walk; plaster ceiling. The upper storeys are painted stone-dressed brick; a stone mullioned and transomed window to the third storey has a steep sill and a pediment above the lintel; a stepped 3-light mullioned window to the fourth storey has a transom and upper light to the central portion only; a recessed stone panel dated 1861. The moulded stone cornice to the front gable has 3 plump octagonal finials; a lateral chimney set back, south. INTERIOR: the undercroft is lined; the Row shop, No.15, could not be inspected, but is noted to have a lined shop with ancillary rooms containing 2 mid C19 fireplaces, a C19 cast-iron lavatory cistern and wash basin. No.17 (qv) occupies the upper storeys. The front portion has plaster cornices. A narrow rear wing leads to a former dwelling behind, apparently intended for independent occupation; its south face has an altered door in a painted stone case with sidelights, 4 square piers and an entablature; the windows have painted stone sills and cambered arched heads, probably mid C19; a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes to the Row storey; three 12-pane sashes to the third storey; two 9-pane sashes to the fourth storey; miscellaneous windows to the east gable; rear stone steps from the yard to the undercroft; a later C19 south extension has no visible features of special interest. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 11 June: 1861-). Listing NGR: SJ4055466248