Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/40 (West side)
10/01/72 Nos.16 & 18 Street and No.14 Row
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET
Nos.16 & 18 Street & No.14 Row)

GV II

2 shops and accommodation, now 2 shops and offices. c1804.
Probably on site of 2 undercrofts and town houses. Brown brick
in Flemish bond; roof not visible.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels; an almost
symmetrical front of 2 bays. No.16 has a modest shopfront with
a window of one full-height pane south of a glazed door with a
sub-panel and a 2-pane window north of the door, and a timber
fascia; No.18 has a modern shopfront. The Row front has a
cast-iron railing with spear-heads; the sloping stallboard is
approx 3m from front to back, with rendered brick walls at
each end and centre; the pavement to the Row walk is covered;
the face to the back of the Row walk has a flush tripartite
sash of 4; 12; 4 panes to each side of a 2-panel door in a
case with fluted pilasters, frieze and moulded cornice,
leading to a recessed porch with door to each side. Plaster
ceiling to stallboard and Row walk, with wood beams. The
recessed sashes to the third and fourth storeys have painted
wedge lintels and stone sills; the third storey has 2
tripartite sashes, that to north of 4; 12; 4 panes, that to
south with some glazing bars altered; two 9-pane sashes to the
fourth storey; lead rainwater pipe and head dated 1804;
painted stone cornice; a flush chimney set back at each end.
INTERIOR: most features are covered; a 2-panel fourth storey
door; roof purlins.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4051566236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656740

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)