NUMBER 12 ROW NUMBER 12 STREET

NUMBER 12 ROW, 12, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376213
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 12 ROW NUMBER 12 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 12 ROW, 12, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376213
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 12 ROW NUMBER 12 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 12 ROW, 12, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBER 12 STREET, 12, EASTGATE 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 12 ROW, 12, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 12 STREET, 12, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40568 66274

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/173 (South side) No.12 Street and No.12 Row

GV II

Undercroft shop, Row shop and ancillary accommodation. On site of a former town house which had a C13-14 two-bay vaulted undercroft, destroyed 1861 when rebuilt by G Williams of Liverpool for Messrs Beckett and Co., drapers. Timber-framed front with plaster panels; some sandstone; brick to rear; banded tile roof with front gable abutting ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: undercroft, tall Row, third and fourth storeys and attic. Central flight of 10 sandstone steps to the Row with, to each side, a sandstone crosswall and a modern shopfront, with 9 steps down to undercroft. Painted stone end-piers matching those to No.10 Street (qv). Ornate quatrefoil-in circle cast-iron railing to Row front and sides; ornamented timber post above each side of steps; stepped and slightly sloped stallboard 1.82m from front to back; faded gilt sign on inner face of east end-pier SILKS, DRESS FABRICS, LINEN, HOSIERY, GLOVES, FURS, GARNITURES, ARTICLES DE PARIS; terrazzo Row walk, damaged, with mosaic border; modern shopfront of no interest; patterned quadrant brackets to Row-top bressumer. The third storey has a row of panels, largely hidden by nameboard, between bressumer and a continuous window of 3;2;3 two-pane lights punctuated by a colonnette above each Row post and paired colonnettes at ends; the window has a St Andrew's cross, with a trefoil in each triangle, above each light; the surfaces of the colonnettes are latticed, with capitals of C14 form. Brackets over the colonnettes carry the fourth storey jetty-beam with ornate stopped chamfers; a row of 16 quatrefoil panels; four 2-pane sashes flanked by panels with criss-cross bracing, between 2 small corner-balconies with square posts and handrails on turned balusters. The ornate jettied front gable has hollow-lozenge, St Andrew's cross and rectangular small-framing, possibly false, marked and painted in the plaster; 3 spirally-moulded colonnettes under a mullioned window of four 2-pane sashes on a jettied sill-beam; ornate head-beam, cusped bargeboards, end finials and central drop-finial. INTERIOR: the undercroft surfaces are covered in textured plaster, but suggest that the sandstone sidewalls of the medieval undercroft may in part survive. The Row shop has a central row of cast-iron debased Doric columns carrying a

longitudinal cast-iron II beam. There is noted to be an ornate cast-iron spiral stair, now concealed. The third storey contains a row of 5 cast-iron columns, approximately Corinthian. The upper storeys retain door architraves and small-pane rear sash windows. The part of the east side of No.10 Street visible from the fourth floor balcony of No.12 indicates that No.12 postdates No.10. HISTORICAL NOTE: G Williams, the architect of this item is probably the George Williams who designed No.33 Eastgate Street (qv), now National Westminster Bank, in Classical style 1859-60. (Journal of Chester Archaeological Society: Old Series: Chester: 1858-1864: 410).

Listing NGR: SJ4056866274

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Sources

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'Journal of Chester Archaeological Society' in Chester 1858 to 1864, (), 410

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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.