Listed Building: NUMBER 25 ROW | NUMBER 31 STREET (1376235)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/160 (North side) 10/01/72 No.31 Street and No.25 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.31 Street and No.25 Row) GV II Undercroft and town house now street shop, Row shop and offices. Rebuilt probably 1888, although Douglas had submitted proposals in 1867, and G Williams in 1864. Sandstone, partly now pebbledashed, and timber framing with plaster panels; brown tile roof with ridge at right angle to street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics, including street and Row levels, of one bay. Modern shopfront to street of no interest in C19 frame with timber panelled pilasters and fascia. Timber Row-front rail has cusped ogees between turned balusters to heavy moulded rail; red sandstone end-piers through street and Row storeys. sloping stallboard and the Row walk have surfaces covered; brick, now pebbledashed, endwalls to stallboard and moulded brick arches across Row-walk. The C19 shopfront has door, west, and a 6-light mullioned and transomed window. The end-piers have moulded sandstone capitals carrying paired jetty-brackets and shaped brackets to the bressumer which supports 14 smaller jetty-brackets. Moulded jetty-beam; 10 panels beneath a continuous 10-light mullioned and transomed window of which the central 6 lights form a canted oriel; the panes beneath the transom are replaced and those above, under ogee heads, are leaded; carved frieze and moulded cornice over the oriel. A barleysugar colonnette on each end-post carries a shaped reeded bracket to support the fourth storey jetty-beam; 3 secondary jetty-brackets to each side of oriel. The fourth storey has a central square mullioned-and-transomed bay window, above 5 arched panels, of 6-lights to front with panes beneath transom replaced and those above it, under ogee heads, leaded; each side of the bay-window has a part-glazed door with leaded overlight to a corner balcony with spirally-moulded railings and Tudor arches with carved spandrels to front and sides. The attic storey, boldly jettied above the bay window, has 8 quatrefoil panels to the front and one in each return. The gable has a mullioned 7-light leaded oriel casement on a coved apron, with basket-arched heads to lights, carved frieze and moulded cornice; 2 cusped ogee panels to each side. Shaped reeded brackets support boldly-projecting eaves; spirally-moulded colonnettes support similar brackets to a further jetty above the oriel; herringbone struts flank the oriel; close studding in gable apex; moulded bargeboards. INTERIORS: the surfaces in the shops are covered. Features have been retained in the upper storeys, but lightweight partitioning and linings conceal the effect. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 1/3/1864/ & 14/6/1867). Listing NGR: SJ4062866338