Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/282 (West side)
28/07/55 Nos.21 & 23 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
(West side)
No 21 Row & No 23 Row)

GV II*

Shop formerly with living accommodation, now shop and cafe, on
site of either one or 2 medieval tenements. The present
building is 1897 by H Beswick for Charles Brown. There were no
medieval undercrofts; the cellars incorporate Roman items. The
interior was altered late C20. Sandstone, timber-frame with
plaster panels, clay tile roof.
EXTERIOR: cellar and 3 storeys, now converted to 2. The Row, 2
steps above pavement level, has an arcade with a narrow cusped
archway to each side of a broader opening. Red sandstone
end-piers and 2 stop-chamfered intermediate posts on sandstone
plinths have carved jetty-brackets; the central opening has
cusped brackets in the bressumer. The second storey has
continuous mullioned and transomed leaded glazing with a
4-light canted oriel on brackets above each side-arch and
paired 3-light casements above the central opening; 5
principal posts with spiral colonnettes support carved
brackets to the jettied third storey which has an ornate skirt
to the base of the front gable, 4 pargeted panels inscribed
18:C:B:97 beneath a mullioned casement of 6 leaded lights with
3 curved struts to each side; ornate panels above casement;
shaped bargeboards on paired brackets; carved finial;
cast-iron rainwater heads. The rear is of brick, with no
features of special interest.
INTERIOR: the cellar of No.21 contained a Roman pit; the
cellar of No.23 has remains from Roman principia. The upper
storeys have no visible features of interest.
Nos 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as `Saddler's Row' and
were previously listed as Row numbers.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 1897-;
Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Northgate Street:
1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4051066373

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96278295

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)