Listed Building: NUMBERS 36 AND 38 STREET | NUMBERS 38 AND 40 ROW (1376237)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/183 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.36 & 38 Street and Nos.38 & 40 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos 28-34 (even) Street & Nos 34-40 (even) Row) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.36 Street & No.42 Row) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.38 Street & No.44 Row) GV II 2 shops on site of undercrofts and town houses. 1857. By TM Penson. For William and Charles Brown. The tenant of No.38 Eastgate Row was Bolland, wedding cake maker by appointment to Queen Victoria. Timber-framed front with plaster panels; banded brown tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys including undercrofts and Row, plus attics in roof. Altered shopfronts to street, recessed with slender colonnette mullions to No.36 and with 8 sandstone steps to Row and 2 low modern windows to No.38. Rendered and painted end-piers probably of stone. The Row storey has timber Row-front rail on turned balusters to No.38 and modern steel railing to No.40; boarded stallboard 2.03m from front to back and terrazzo Row walk to No.38; recess in place of stallboard and tiled Row walk to No.40; shopfront to No.38 has colonnette mullions, that to No.40 is modern with no features of interest; a symmetrical moulded pattern to the ceiling in front of each shopfront and a bressumer with carved arrises, on shaped brackets, to each Row-front. The third storey of No.38 has a shallow square 6-light oriel, on carved and moulded corbel, with tracery above cusped ogee lights; a close studded panel to each side of the oriel, divided by a cross-rail at sill level; No.40 has a foliar corbel on each end-pier decorated with PB and a Cheshire sheaf, carrying a colonnette before each corner post; a row of 14 small cusped panels, a pair of 3-light windows with a colonnette to each side and, spirally-moulded, at centre; cusped heads to lights, with tracery above; the timber framing to each side of the windows is idiosyncratic. The fourth storey of No.38 carries the planes of the oriel up to the gable, with a row of small-framed panels in pairs divided by colonnettes; floor and sill strings; 2 mullioned 2-light windows with cusped-arch heads and tracery above; small-framing to sides of and above the windows has quatrefoil bracing; a shield on each corner-post; a spirally-moulded colonnette on a carved-head corbel on the centre-post on a carved-head corbel rises to the gable apex; richly-carved pierced bargeboards; finial replaced in terracotta. No.40 has moulded floor and sill beams, a row of 10 ornate small panels with colonnettes and 5 quasi-armorial shields, a 2-light casement with tracery above cusped arches, narrow panels to each side and curved braces in the gable apex above, richly carved pierced bargeboards and carved finial. INTERIORS: the undercrofts, part of Nos 28 (qv) and 38 Street, have all surfaces clad. No.38 Row, now part of Nos 34 & 40 Row (qv), has some pilasters and cornices, an open-well stair with painted rail on ornate cast-iron balustrade; the third storey has a panelled barrel vault with leaded glazing in the upper, skylight, panels; a glazed dome over the stair. No.40 Row has a probably early C20 stair in a manner appropriate to an elegant drapery store. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 13/3/1857; Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street South). Listing NGR: SJ4063966271