Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/51 (West side)
No.44 Street and No.44 Row

GV II

Undercroft and town house rebuilt probably late C19 as an
extension to department store comprising Nos.44, 46, 48 and 50
Street and Row (qv). Brick, sandstone and cast-iron; grey
slate roof with ridge at right angle to front.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys including undercroft and Row levels.
Cast-iron columns behind modern shopfront to street; sandstone
end-piers partly concealed at street level and chamfered at
Row level; Row front has wrought-iron railing with
spear-headed principal balusters and serpentine common
balusters and scroll-ornamented double rail as in No.46 Street
(qv); 2 cast-iron Doric columns; no stallboard; granolithic
Row walk; painted rear wall to Row has modern framed and
boarded double doors with a tripartite sash of 4;16;4 panes
north and a 16-pane sash south, both with panelled shutters on
HL hinges; boxed beam at each end; plastered ceiling;
modillion cornice below covered bressumer to third storey. The
upper storeys, of painted English garden wall bond brickwork,
have 4 recessed 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and
gauged brick heads to the third storey, 4 similar sashes, but
shorter, to the fourth storey, a 3-course dentil band at attic
level; 2 sashes as to the fourth storey, but under blocked
brick basket-arches with hood-courses and shaped brick keys;
coped gable on corbelled attic-storey brick end- pilasters.
INTERIOR: the cast-iron columns with simple basemoulds and
foliar capitals are the only visible features of interest.
Included for group value.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge
Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4052566145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656755

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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