Listed Building: NUMBER 21 STREET | NUMBER 25 ROW (1376070)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 595-1, 4, 62
Date assigned 10 January 1972
Date last amended

Description

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SW BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/62 (East side) 10/01/72 No.21 Street and No.25 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.21 Street & No.25 Row) GV II Undercroft and town house, rebuilt from Row storey upward as Row shop and living accommodation. Undercroft ceiling and probably side-walls medieval, most likely C14; front and probably interior of upper storeys c1800, the latter altered and lined C20. Red-brown brick; grey slate roof with ridge at right-angle to street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, one bay. Modern shopfront to street; end-piers to undercroft and Row storeys are cased in wood; cast-iron Row-front railing has bottom rail, stick balusters and plain rail; the sloped stallboard 1.69m from front to back and the Row walk are covered in plastic; modern shop; boxed end-beams; a wood fascia covers the Row-front bressumer. The upper storeys in Flemish bond have painted stone sills, wedge lintels and a cornice beneath a low stone parapet; an 18-pane nearly flush sash to the third storey; a recessed 15-pane sash with horizontally-proportioned panes to the fourth storey. INTERIOR: the undercroft has a chamfered oak beam under back of the stallboard, stopped at south end; the south wall has a bridging beam on 5 damaged stone corbels, carrying 10 visible large square cross-joists, their north ends covered; the Row and upper storeys are almost wholly lined; the fourth storey has corner chimney-breasts and plaster cornices in the front and second rooms; one 6-panel Georgian door. Listing NGR: SJ4056266233

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 470056. [Mapped features: #5329 470056; #10632 470056]

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Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 4056 6623 (39m by 17m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46NW
Civil Parish CHESTER NON PARISH AREA, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

May 30 2012 11:32AM