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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/182 (South side) 28/07/55 Nos.30, 32 & 34 Street and No.36 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos 28-34 (even) Street & Nos 34-40 (even) Row)

GV II

Shop, now part of a department store with Nos 36-44 (even) Street and 38-48 (even) Row (qv). c1828, evidently altered mid C19 and reorganised internally C20. Yellow sandstone and lined render; grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys including undercroft and Row, plus attic. 3 windows, symmetrical. Broad central flight of 7 sandstone steps from street to Row, flanked by column-plinths; to east and west of plinths flights of 9 and 8 steps lead, via a lobby under the Row steps, to the undercroft storey; cast-iron double gates at the top of each flight to the undercroft; the undercroft storey has a shop-window flanked by an anta pier, to each side of entrance. The Row front has Classical cast-iron spearhead railings, a fluted Doric column to each side of the steps and an anta at each end; stallboards removed, formerly 1.5m front to back; terrazzo Row walk; replaced recessed glazed door with window to each side having colonnette mullions and shaped top corners to panes; lattice panels above shopfront; ceiling of octagonal and lozenge panels. Stone entablature to Row opening, with third storey sillband above cornice. Central double French window with architrave, pediment and wrought-iron guard-rail; a similar French window to each side under flat entablature. The fourth storey has a plain sillband to 3 recessed sashes with glazing bars removed; cornice. The attic storey has a central pedimented gable containing a recessed sash with glazing bars removed; parapet to each side with panel of 5 vase balusters and moulded cornice. The false-mansard roof, set back, has a dormer to each side of the front gable; brick lateral chimney, east. INTERIOR: a pair of parallel barrel-vaulted undercrofts of C18 form. The Row storey has 2 octagonal ceiling panels visible behind the entrance. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street South: 1989-1990; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh).



Listing NGR: SJ4062766295

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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