3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street and 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street Row East

3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street East Row, CH1 1NG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376057
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street and 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address:: 3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street East Row, CH1 1NG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376057
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street and 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address 1:: 3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street East Row, CH1 1NG
Statutory Address 2:: 3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street East Row, CH1 1NG
Statutory Address:: 3, 5 and 7, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40541 66265

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 18 September 2024 to update name, address and details, add Source and reformat the text to current standards

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/56

CHESTER CITY (IM) BRIDGE STREET Nos. 3, 5 and 7

AND

BRIDGE STREET ROW EAST Nos. 3, 5 and 7

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (East side) Nos.3, 5 & 7 Street and Nos.3, 5 & 7 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET Nos.3-7 (odd) Street & Nos.3-7 (odd) Row)

10/01/72

GV II

Number 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street and 3, 5 and 7 Bridge Street Row East was built in 1889-90 as undercroft and Row shops, probably with accommodation above. It was designed by William M Boden who was responsible for a number of Chester buildings in this period, including number 49 Bridge Street and 57 and 57A Bridge Street Row East, and number 12-14 Northgate Street and 10-12 Northgate Row East. Boden was a pupil of Thomas Mainwaring Penson, who was influential in the development of the Vernacular Revival style in Chester in the mid-C19. The minutes from Chester City Council’s Improvement Committee record that ‘The old premises were constructed of [timber] and plaster about 4in. thick and, as space is very valuable, I [Bowden] propose to build all the partitions of 4.1/2in. Ruabon pressed bricks and hoop iron bands, using freely cast-iron joists and girders resting on strong pillars. The front wall below timber framing 9 in. thick and all basement walls 9 in.’

In 1902, the three undercroft shops were occupied by a pork butchers, a hairdresser and a tea and coffee dealer, while the Row shops were a drapers, a milliners and a wool shop. In 2023, the Row and undercroft shops were still six separate units occupied by a variety of retail and food businesses. The building is constructed of Ruabon brick with cast-iron and timber framing with plaster panels. It has a red-brown clay tile roof, the main ridge being parallel with the front.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row level. It is symmetrical and of three bays. The undercrofts have C20 shopfronts to the street. The Row level has shaped splat balusters to the front opening, brick end-piers and two intermediate supports, which are probably cast-iron in square wooden cases with moulded capitals. There is a boarded sloped stallboard measuring 1.93m from front to back; and a boarded Row walkway. The Row has C20 shopfronts. To the Row opening, each bay has a timber four-centred ‘Tudor’ arch carried on stone corbels and the intermediate capitals, each with an ornate pendant.

The Row has shaped brackets which support a tiled lean-to roof to the third storey. This intersects three canted five-light mullioned oriel windows with concave sub-panels and leaded glazing above their transoms. The brickwork is constructed in a nine-inch English garden wall bond wall between and beside the oriels.

Four large shaped brackets support the jettied fourth storey. This has small framing and a projecting central bay with a four-light shallow oriel window on a concave sub-panel with leaded glazing above the transom. Each side bay has a shallow three-light canted oriel window under a gablet with a pair of curved braces and bargeboards. The central gable has a coved plastered jetty with a moulded tie-beam, S-curved herringbone struts, bargeboards and a shaped finial. There are three brick chimneys behind the ridge.

INTERIOR: the undercrofts have four steps down from the street to number 3 Bridge Street, five steps to number 5 and four to number 7. The interiors are lined. The upper storeys are planned around a central lightwell which is glazed above the Row storey.

Listing NGR: SJ4054166265

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Legacy System number:: 470043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, A, 'The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project' in English Heritage Archaeological Report, (1999), p 156
Other
Chester City Council: Improvement Committee Minutes 18/9 & 26/10/1889
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1902)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.