43, 45 and 47 Bridge Street Row East

43, 45 and 47, Bridge Street Row East

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376090
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 43, 45 and 47 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address:: 43, 45 and 47, Bridge Street Row East

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376090
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 43, 45 and 47 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address 1:: 43, 45 and 47, Bridge Street Row East

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:: 43, 45 and 47, Bridge Street Row East

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:: SJ4056966172

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 17 September 2024 to update name, address and details, add Source and reformat the text to current standards

SJ 4066 SE; 595-1/4/70

CHESTER CITY (IM), RIDGE STREET ROW EAST Nos. 43, 45 and 47

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (east side), Nos. 43, 45 & 47 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET No 39 Street & No 45 Row, previously listed as No 45A Row))

28/07/55

GV II

Number 43, 45 and 47 Bridge Street Row East comprises a neo-Jacobean style brick building designed by Edward Hodkinson and erected in 1864 for the landowner, the second Marquis of Westminster. Hodkinson contributed to the developing Chester Vernacular Revival style in the mid-C19 and was a strong exponent for the restoration of historic buildings ‘to their original design’. A member of the Chester Archaeological Society and, later, its Honorary Librarian and Curator, he was also responsible for rebuilding number 13 Bridge Street and 15 Bridge Street Row East and 31, 33 and 35 Bridge Street, 37 and 39 Bridge Street Row East which, less than fifty years later, was replaced by William Thomas Lockwood’s St Michael’s Arcade. Number 43-47 Bridge Street Row was erected over medieval undercrofts, one of which includes the remains of C2 AD Roman baths, which have separate entries on the National Heritage List for England.

Initially there were three Row shops, all of which were in separate occupancy to those in the undercroft, and the upper floors provided accommodation. In 2023, the Row level was occupied by one large and one small retail shop with storage in the floors above. The building is constructed of brown brick with blue diaper pattern and stone-dressings. It has a grey slate roof with its ridge parallel with the street.

EXTERIOR: The list entry relates to the Row storey and two upper storeys, which form three symmetrical units.

The Row front has brick end-piers and a cast-iron railing with a bottom rail, spirally moulded balusters, a top rail and ornate spearheads. There are two cast-iron intermediate columns with patterned plinths and strapwork on their shafts. A sloped stallboard, measuring 1.8m front to back, is boarded to number 43 and 45, and covered to 47. The Row walkway is boarded to number 43 and 45, and 47 has concrete flags. There are two modern shopfronts. A rear passage at the south end leads to number 45A, 45B and 47A Bridge Street Row. The Row has a plaster ceiling and a plain wood-faced bressumer to the Row front.

The brick third and fourth storeys have recessed two-pane sash windows with moulded stone sills and segmental blue brick arches. There are three triple sashes to the third storey and three dual sashes to the fourth storey. There is a central gable with a smaller gable to each side, each is stone-dressed and has kneelers, rectangular side-projections, coping and a stumpy octagonal finial.

The rear face appears to be constructed in two phases. Number 43 and 45 are under a wide gable which projects beyond the gable of number 47.

Listing NGR: SJ4056966172

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 470078
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 158
Other
Kelly’s Directory: Cheshire (1902)
Post Office Directory: Cheshire (1878)

Legal

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