Listed Building: NUMBER 30 ROW | NUMBER 32 STREET (1376078)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/45 (West side) 10/01/72 No.32 Street and No.30 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.32 Street & No.30 Row) GV II* Undercroft and town house, now a street level shop, a Row level shop and accommodation. Medieval, 1811 and early and late C20. Brown brick in Flemish bond; roof at right-angle to the street re-covered in probably cement tiles. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row levels. The street-level shopfront of wood and glass is probably c1900 with part-glazed 2-panel recessed door having plain overlight and 1-pane canted window above a sub-panel to each side; main shop window of one pane above a sub-panel to each side of entrance; stop-chamfered mullion-posts with consoles carry a cornice. The Row front has simple cast-iron stick balusters and rail; central cast-iron Tuscan column; the stallboard, 1.17m from front to back has surface covered; boarded Row walk; modern shopfront has small-paned part-glazed door and window; plastered ceiling to stallboard and Row walk; the bressumer is concealed. The third and fourth storeys have 2 recessed sashes to each, with painted stone sillbands and heads expressed as wedge lintels, of 12 panes to the third storey and 9 panes to the fourth storey. Lead rainwater pipe and head, the top bracket dated 1811; painted stone cornice; 3 chimneys on north wall. The late C19 cottage adjoining the rear forms part of the property but has no visible external features of special interest. INTERIOR: the medieval undercroft, tapering on plan, is the longest identified in the Rows at 40.85m. Walls are, where visible, of coursed rubble sandstone and later brickwork, plastered in part; 5 chamfered oak beams not closely datable and 2 altered beams; behind the 4-storey portion is an inserted concrete flat roof on the medieval walls, behind which the sandstone side walls continue, barrel-vaulted in brick C18, to the sandstone rear wall. The Row storey has an open-well open-string stair to the third and fourth storeys with shaped brackets, stick balusters and swept rail; early C19 cast-iron grates; a C19 leaded rear window. The third and fourth storeys have early C19 cast-iron grates. The rear portion, probably formerly a separate dwelling, has a C18 panelled room and a partly-altered C18 stair. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-). Listing NGR: SJ4052366189