Listed Building: NUMBER 39 STREET | NUMBERS 47 AND 49 ROW (1376438)

CHESTER CITY (IM) SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/393 (South side) 28/07/55 No.39 Street and Nos.47 & 49 Row (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.39 Street & Nos.47 & 49 Row) GV II Town house now 2 shops and an office. Rebuilt early C18 on undercroft, probably medieval but altered C18. Painted sandstone; brick; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and row levels. Street level has end piers and 2 intermediate piers, all of stone and chamfered; glazed double doors with fixed window of 16 panes to each side. Row has 2 Roman Doric columns; the rail on turned balusters is of painted wood; simple shopfront of glass and wood, largely C20, with 6-panel door right. Frieze and cornice to Row bressumer. 3 flush sashes to each upper storey; those to third storey have 12 panes with thick glazing bars, those to fourth storey are shorter, with 16 panes. Stone sills, those to third storey on console brackets; gauged brick flat arches to all windows, with moulded stone keystones. Rusticated quoins; plain band at fourth storey floor level; moulded cornice carries parapet with rusticated quoins and moulded coping. The rear is of brown brick in irregular bond; a later extension at west side; replaced windows, 3 in openings with gauged brick arches. INTERIOR: the undercroft has walls of sandstone coursed rubble 1.4m high with a C18 brick barrel-vault over. The stair from Row level to the third storey has added modern surfaces. The chamber above the Row, now divided in 2, has early C18 panelling, with short panels below the dado and tall panels above; the cornice has dentils; the panelling from the west wall is repositioned on the east face of the inserted partition; the sashes have panelled embrasures; the door has 6 margin panels. Other doors have 2 great panels and HL hinges. A back room has a repositioned chamfered beam, stopped at south end of a corner chimney-breast containing a C19 cast-iron fireplace. The oak open-well stair to the fourth storey has open string with brackets, 3 column-on-vase balusters to each step and a substantial swept moulded rail. There is a 2-light leaded window to the front room; 3 doors from the fourth storey landing, each with 2 great fielded panels. The rooms on this storey were not inspected. (Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC & Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-: 30). Listing NGR: SJ4040966230