61 Bridge Street and 71 and 73 Bridge Street Row East

61, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376105
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 61 Bridge Street and 71 and 73 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address:: 61, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376105
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 61 Bridge Street and 71 and 73 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address 1:: 61, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG
Statutory Address 2:: 71 and 73, Bridge Street Row East, 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 61, Bridge Street, CH1 1NG
Statutory Address:: 71 and 73, Bridge Street Row East, 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 40579 66117

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

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/78

CHESTER CITY (IM) BRIDGE STREET No 61

AND

BRIDGE STREET ROW EAST No 71 and 73

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (East side) No.61 Street and Nos.71 & 73 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.61 Street & Nos.71 & 73 Row)

28/07/55

GV II

Number 61 Bridge Street and 71 and 73 Bridge Street Row East form a partially surviving medieval stone undercroft below a Row and townhouse which were rebuilt in brick in around 1760. The new work incorporated many reused timbers with C17 detailing and it is thought to have replaced a two bay C17 timber structure. In the later C19 the undercroft and Row shops were in separate occupancy with two shops at Row level, one of which included a boot and shoemaker. The undercroft was a single shop unit, operating as a baker and flour deliverer in 1878 and a grocers by 1902. The building was altered in the C20 and the undercroft has since accommodated various retail and restaurant businesses.

In 2023, the Row level shop was a single shop, in use as a model centre, with ancillary uses above. The street level undercroft was a restaurant. The building is constructed in Flemish bond brown brick. It has a grey slate roof with its ridge at right angles to the street and is hipped to the front.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row. It is probably formed by two medieval plots that were converted into one in the C18.

The undercroft has a modern shopfront to the street and has its end-piers covered. The Row front has rendered end-piers, two cast-iron Tuscan intermediate columns and a timber rail on stout turned balusters. An altered boarded stallboard, measuring 1.67m from front to back, is now scarcely sloped and has two steps down to the flagged Row walkway. The C20 Row shopfront has a C19 door to the south (to number 73 Bridge Street Row) and a glazed C20 door into the shop. A plaster ceiling slopes down from the Row-front to the shop. A large Row-top bressumer has modillions above the fascia.

The brick upper storeys have replaced, horned six over six-pane recessed sash windows with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels. There is a full cornice of painted stone and a tall brick parapet with plain coping. A lateral chimney is set back to the north.

INTERIOR: the front part of the undercroft, which is three steps down from the level of the pavement, is lined with no features visible. The back part of the undercroft is paired with a southern chamber under an C18 brick barrel-vault that is now plastered. Observations during refurbishment in July 1988 revealed medieval stone walls with a doorway and fair east face to the present back wall, suggesting a similar rear undercroft chamber to that in number 57 Bridge Street.

The Row storey has some reused C17 oak beams. There is a six-flight open-well open-string stair behind the southern door (which opens onto the Row), the lower three flights were not in use at the time of survey. The stair has softwood treads and risers, carved brackets, turned newels, three column-on-vase balusters per step and a swept rail. Up to the third storey the stair has dado pilasters, a rail and a landing balustrade to the now-floored stairwell.

A later, one-flight stair to the third storey appears to be late Georgian, but is altered, with its steps covered. It has a turned newel, closed string, stick balusters and a rail swept only to the bottom newel. The third-storey landing to the older stair has three doorways with shouldered architraves. The doors to the front chamber and the rear wing have been removed but to the second room there is a door of six fielded panels. The front chamber over the Row has a panelled doorway, well-panelled embrasures, an integral cast-iron grate and mantel and a substantial cornice to the west, south and east walls. There is a stop-chamfered C17 beam, probably brought-in, over the entrance to the rear wing. The fourth storey front room has a cast-iron grate in a damaged surround with its mantel cut off and a door of three broad boards on butterfly hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ4057966117

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Legacy System number:: 470095
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Sources

Books and journals
Brown, A, 'The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project' in English Heritage Archaeological Report, (1999), p 158
Other
Historic England Research Records: Monument Number 545438
Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire (1902), p215
Post Office Directory of Cheshire (1878), p112

Legal

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