Listed Building: NUMBER 10 STREET | NUMBERS 8 AND 10 ROW (1376212)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/172 (South side) No.10 Street and Nos.8 & 10 Row GV II Undercroft shop, Row shop and accommodation, now storage. Probably c1860 in the manner of James Harrison. Sandstone and timber framing, probably in part false, with plaster panels; grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. Proto Vernacular Revival style. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, including undercroft and Row levels, plus attics. Modern shopfront to street. Ornate cast-iron Row-front railing, having panels with ornamented circles in squares; sloping stallboard 1.82m from front to back and Row walk have surfaces covered; painted stone cross-walls at ends of stallboard; modern shopfront of no interest; panelled plaster ceiling; painted brackets, probably of stone. The Row-top bressumer has stop-chamfered arrises comparable with those by James Harrison at Nos 40 & 51 Bridge Street Row (qv). The third storey has shaped brackets surmounted by brattishing beneath a pair of jettied 5-light mullioned casements with 2 transoms; quatrefoil and hollow-lozenge features. The fourth storey has 2 ornate canted 6-light oriels on large moulded corbels, with ornate sub-panels and corner colonnettes in C13 manner; blank tracery above upper lights; zig-zag-braced panels between and to sides of oriels; above each oriel a coved jetty and quatrefoil and trefoil panelling beneath a 5-light stepped casement with ogee heads to the side and upper lights and spirally-moulded corner colonnettes on carved corbels in dormer gables, with deep, moulded bargeboards. The upper attic has a steep gabled lucarne with one ogee-headed pane. The west end-gable is of brown brick diapered in blue-black and white brick. INTERIOR: the only visible features of special interest are some architraves, and small-pane rear sash windows. The east side of this item, inspected from the rear and the fourth storey front gallery of No.12 Eastgate Street and Row (qv) rebuilt in 1861, shows that No.10 predates No.12. Listing NGR: SJ4055866276