63 Bridge Street and 75 Bridge Street Row East

63, Bridge Street, CH1 1NW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376106
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 63 Bridge Street and 75 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address:: 63, Bridge Street, CH1 1NW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376106
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 63 Bridge Street and 75 Bridge Street Row East
Statutory Address 1:: 63, Bridge Street, CH1 1NW
Statutory Address 2:: 75, Bridge Street Row East, CH1 1NW

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:: 63, Bridge Street, CH1 1NW
Statutory Address:: 75, Bridge Street Row East, CH1 1NW

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 40576 66110

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 595-1/4/79

CHESTER CITY (IM) BRIDGE STREET No 63

AND

BRIDGE STREET ROW EAST No 75

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (East side) No.63 Street and No.75 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.63 Street & No.75 Row)

28/07/55

GV II

Number 63 Bridge Street and 75 Bridge Street Row East form undercroft and Row shops below a brick townhouse constructed in around 1760. Although its lined walls mean that no earlier fabric is visible internally, it is likely to have been on the site of an earlier building and in the 1990s its owner reported that previous work in the undercroft had exposed a sandstone wall in the area adjacent to St Michael’s church, suggesting it has medieval origins. In the late C19 to early C20, the street level shop was one of many butchers along Bridge Street and the Row was occupied by a tobacconists.

In the late C20 the undercroft was converted into a café and in 2015 the Row level shop became a tea shop with dining rooms and storage above. The building is constructed of 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 narrow storeys, including an undercroft and Row, and is of one bay.

The undercroft has a modern shopfront to the street. Brick end-piers rise through the undercroft and Row storeys, the lower parts of which are rendered.

The Row has a timber rail on stick balusters to the front opening, with a sloped boarded stallboard measuring 1.63m front to back, a flagged Row walkway and a shopfront of around 1850. This has a later recessed glazed door with a sub-panel, panelled stall-risers and end pilasters, moulded sills, slim cylindrical mullions with fluted bases and caps, and rounded top corners of panes with carved spandrels and a moulded cornice.

The brick upper storeys have details similar to those of number 71 and 73 Bridge Street Row. There is one original flush six-over-six pane sash window to the third storey and a three-over-six pane sash to the fourth storey, a painted stone sill to the third storey window and a sillband to the fourth storey. Both windows have rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones. Above is a painted stone full cornice and a tall brick parapet with a plain cap. A lateral chimney is located to the north. The south return is of English garden wall brickwork and has a three over six-pane flush sash to the fourth storey.

INTERIOR: the undercroft is lined but has C18 cross-beams. During refurbishment it was observed as having a medieval south wall. The upper storeys are lined.

Listing NGR: SJ4057666110

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 470096
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 160
Thacker, AT, Lewis, CP, 'Late Georgian and Victorian Chester 1762-1914: The economy, 1871-1914, the limits of reorientation' in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, (2003), pp. 185-199
Other
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1910)
Post Office Directory of 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.