10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South

10 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376212
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address:: 10 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376212
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address 1:: 10 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE
Statutory Address 2:: 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LE

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:: 10 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE
Statutory Address:: 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LE

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40558 66276

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 19 February 2025 to update the description and add Source and reformat the text to current standards

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/172

CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) No.10 Street and Nos.8 & 10 Row

GV II

10 Eastgate Street and 8 and 10 Eastgate Row South form an undercroft and Row shops below a former townhouse. It was built in the Vernacular Revival style in 1861 by George Williams who designed this and the adjacent building (12 Eastgate Street and 12 Eastgate Row South). The building is an early example of the emerging style, and had timbers applied to plaster panels with a purely decorative function. Williams was previously known for his classical architecture, including the National Westminster Bank at 33 Eastgate Street, which was built in 1859-1860. In the early C20 the two Row properties were separate units, with 10 Eastgate Row being in office use, but by the mid-C20 they had been altered into a single retail unit. The undercroft also underwent internal alterations and had a new shopfront in the mid-to-late C20. The two upper storeys are now (2024) in retail and storage use. The building is constructed of sandstone and timber framing, part of which is probably false, with plaster panels. It has a grey-slate roof, with its ridge parallel with Eastgate Street.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row level, plus attics. At street level there is a modern shopfront to the undercroft.

The Row has an ornate cast-iron front railing with panels of ornamented circles in squares. A sloping stallboard, measuring 1.82m from front to back, and the Row walkway have their surfaces covered. There are painted-stone cross walls at each end of the stallboard. The Row has a modern shopfront and a panelled plaster ceiling. Painted brackets, probably of stone, carry the bressumer above the Row. This has stop-chamfered arrises comparable with those by James Harrison at 40 Bridge Street and 40 Bridge Street Row West, and 51 Bridge Street and 53 Bridge Street and 59, 59A and 59B Bridge Street Row East.

The third storey has a row of shaped brackets beneath brattishing under a pair of jettied, five-light mullioned casement windows with two transoms. The upper lights incorporate quatrefoil and hollow-lozenge features. The fourth storey has two ornate canted five-light oriel windows carried on a large moulded base. Each window has ornate sub-panels and corner colonnettes in a C13 manner and there is blank tracery above the upper lights. Between, and to the sides of, the oriels are zig-zag braced panels.

Above each oriel window is a jetty that carries a gabled dormer window to the attic. These have quatrefoil and ornamental cusped panelling beneath a four-light stepped casement window and ogee heads to the side and upper lights. Each gable has spiral-moulded corner colonnettes on carved corbels and deep moulded bargeboards. To the roof is a steep gabled lucarne with one ogee-headed pane. The west end-gable is of brown brick with diaperwork in blue-black and white brick.

INTERIOR: visible features of special interest include architraves and small-paned sash windows to the rear. The east side of the building, inspected from the rear and the fourth storey front gallery of 12 Eastgate Street and Eastgate Row South (which was rebuilt in 1861), shows that 10 Eastgate Street was built before 12 Eastgate Street.

Listing NGR: SJ4055866276

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 470206
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, A, The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project, (1999), p117; p171
Other
Cheshire West and Chester Planning Portal, Reference: 6/4563
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1902).
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1910).

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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.