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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/156 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.19 & 21 Street and No.29 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos.19 & 21 Street & No.29 Row)

GV II

2 undercrofts and broad-fronted town house, now 2 shops at street level, one shop at Row level and office reached from Godstall Lane. All visible elements rebuilt early C19, altered C20. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front; roof concealed. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 5 windows each to third and fourth storeys. Modern street level shopfronts of no interest. The Row front has early C20 cast-iron railings, rendered end-piers and 2 Tuscan columns near centre; broad softwood boards to stallboard 2.2m front to rear; granolithic surface to Row walk. Shopfront to Row has a raised margined 6-panel door, that to west with 3 timber steps, that to east 2 stone steps, in timber cases with panelled pilasters and correct friezes and cornices, flanking a shop window of five 20-pane lights with incised pilasters between. Painted Row-top bressumer with cornice. Third storey floorband of painted stone; recessed sashes with glazing bars altered or removed; the central sash has surround with architraves and entablature, the 2 sashes to each side have wedge lintels. The fourth storey has 5 recessed 12-pane sashes, the central one in surround with architrave and cornice, those to each side with painted stone sills and wedge lintels. Full cornice of painted stone, plus parapet course; a central ridge chimney. An elaborate wrought-iron bracket on east Row pier. The office has a 6-panel door to Godstall Lane. INTERIORS: the street and Row storeys have all surfaces covered. The stair from Godstall Lane to the third and fourth storeys is open-string open-well with shaped brackets, cast-iron balusters, straight moulded and ornate figures-of-eight alternating, a swept rail with wreath on ring of balusters on curtail step. The stair well has original cornices and an arched niche on each landing. Skirtings, doors of 6 margined panels, architraves, some cast-iron fireplaces and some probably original cornices. A relatively unaltered late Georgian interior. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street North: 1989-1990).



Listing NGR: SJ4060166329

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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