NUMBER 57 STREET NUMBERS 63 AND 65 ROW

NUMBER 57 STREET, 57, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376104
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 57 STREET NUMBERS 63 AND 65 ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 57 STREET, 57, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376104
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 57 STREET NUMBERS 63 AND 65 ROW
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 57 STREET, 57, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 63 AND 65 ROW, 63 AND 65, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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:: NUMBER 57 STREET, 57, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 63 AND 65 ROW, 63 AND 65, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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 40575 66130

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/77 (East side) 10/01/72 No.57 Street and Nos.63 & 65 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No 57 Street & Nos 63 & 65 Row)

GV II*

Undercroft and town house, then undercroft shop, Row shop and accommodation now used as storage. Medieval, not closely dateable; C17, early C19 and C20. Sandstone, some timber framing, brick; the roof is not visible. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row; one bay. Mid C20 shopfront to street in simplified early C20 manner; 11 sandstone steps to Row, 4 repaired. Cast-iron railing to Row front and return has circlets in double bottom rail, stick balusters and a castellated pattern between paired top rails; timber-cased end-posts and a cast-iron Roman Doric central column; covered sloped stallboard 2.21m from front to back; flagged Row walk; the simple shopfront has an added security blind to entrance; plaster ceiling; the Row-top bressumer behind timber fascia and cornice has Flemish bond brown brickwork with pale headers above. 2 recessed sashes to each upper storey, now of 4 panes, have painted stone sills and wedge lintels; a full cornice and low parapet of painted stone. INTERIOR: the undercroft shop has surfaces covered; the cross-beams are boxed; from the back a sandstone passage leads to a medieval rear undercroft 3.7m wide and 3.47m front to back; the west wall is the former rear wall of the medieval front undercroft, with masonry visible south of the doorway; a cupboard recess in the west wall; a roughly chamfered oak beam against the north wall is probably C17. The Row shop is lined, but with doorway to the south passage which has a stop-chamfered cross-beam and other indications of C17 timber framing. A dogleg stair to the third storey has closed string, turned newel and stick balusters. The chamber above the Row has a substantial skirting, dado rail, 2 panels beneath each window, splayed jambs and broad architraves, a probably cast-iron painted fireplace with Corinthian-derived fluted pilasters and frieze beneath mantel of vine leaves in seven round-arched panels; the ceiling has a plaster cornice above a simple frieze; a plaster rose. The second and third rooms have 6-panel doors; the third room has a simple Classical timber corner fireplace, a 2-panel door on H hinges

to a small cupboard with architraves and a larger cupboard with door of 3 broad boards; a panel of wattle is displayed in the passage wall; a closet cupboard. The fourth room has a door of 4 fielded panels on HL hinges, a round-arched cast-iron grate in a C19 wood fireplace with stop-chamfered pilasters carrying a moulded mantel on acanthus brackets. The back room could not be inspected. A closed-string dogleg stair to the fourth storey has turned newels, 2 stick balusters per step and swept rail. The front room, now divided, has a 4-panel door and a simple corner fireplace in the south part. The second room has no features; the third room has a 6-panel door, a cupboard door of 3 broad boards and a 16-pane flush sash; the door to the back wing is later C19, with 3;2;3;2 panels. the back room has a 6-panel door and a flush sash.

Listing NGR: SJ4057566130

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Legacy System number:: 470094
Legacy System:: LBS

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