16 Eastgate Street and 16 Eastgate Row South

16 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376215
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 16 Eastgate Street and 16 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address:: 16 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376215
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 16 Eastgate Street and 16 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address 1:: 16 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LF
Statutory Address 2:: 16 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LF

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:: 16 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LF
Statutory Address:: 16 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LF

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 40582 66275

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

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CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) No.16 Street and No.16 Row

(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.16 Street & No.16 Row)

10/01/72

GV II

16 Eastgate Street and 16 Eastgate Row South was built as an undercroft, Row and townhouse, probably in the late C18. In the early C20 the undercroft was in use as the Great Western Railway’s parcel office, and the Row shop was a stationery shop. The property was auctioned in 1927, and alterations and additions to the Row shop were approved in 1928. The shopfronts and interiors were altered in the late C20, and in the early C21 the undercroft and Row were in separate retail use, with ancillary uses above. The front of the building is of brown brick laid in a Flemish bond, and the roof is concealed by a parapet.

The building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row. The undercroft is at street level and has a modern shopfront with rendered end-piers that rise through the undercroft and Row storeys.

The Row level has a plain iron railing, two Doric-derived cast-iron columns to the front opening, and a cornice. There is a stallboard measuring 2.05m from front to back, and the Row shop has a modern shopfront. The third storey has a painted-stone sill band below two recessed six-over-six sash windows with painted wedge lintels.

The fourth storey has a sill band below two recessed three-over-six sash windows with painted wedge lintels. There is a parapet cornice of painted stone, and a lateral chimney to the east. A lead rainwater head is shared with 20 Eastgate Row.

INTERIOR: the features in the undercroft and Row storeys are covered. The over-Row parlour and partitions in the third storey are largely intact. The roof structure is visible in the fourth storey.

Listing NGR: SJ4058266275

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 470209
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, A, The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project, (1999), p172
Other
Cheshire Records Office, reference: ZDS/3/154.
Chester Local Studies Collection, reference: 222451.

Legal

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