20 Eastgate Street and 22 Eastgate Row South

20 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376220
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 20 Eastgate Street and 22 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address:: 20 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places. Almost 350,000 photos and stories have been added so far.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/07380/17
Rights:: © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376220
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 20 Eastgate Street and 22 Eastgate Row South
Statutory Address 1:: 20 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE
Statutory Address 2:: 22 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 20 Eastgate Street, CH1 1LE
Statutory Address:: 22 Eastgate Row South, CH1 1LE

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 40592 66278

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 595-1/4/177

CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) No.20 Street and No.22 Row

(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.20 Street & No.22 Row)

10/01/72

GV II

20 Eastgate Street and 22 Eastgate Street Row was built in the mid-C17 on a narrow plot as an undercroft, Row shop and townhouse. The building was refaced in brick in the early C19, concealing two partially surviving structures of C17 origin, built one behind the other. In the early C20 the undercroft shop was occupied by a hatters and the Row was a bootmakers. In 2022 the undercroft and Row were still in separate retail use, with ancillary uses above. The façade of the building is of brown brick laid in a Flemish bond, which hides timber framing. It has a grey-slate roof with its ridge at right-angles to the front elevation. EXTERIOR: the building is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row.

The undercroft at street level has a modern shopfront between early fluted pilasters, and a plain wooden fascia. The Row level has a simple cast-iron railing to the front opening, with painted brick end-piers and side showcases. There is a sloped, boarded stallboard measuring 2.05m from front to back, and a concrete-flag Row walkway. The shopfront is in Edwardian style with a recessed glazed door of one shaped pane, a panelled stallboard, and a two-paned shop window with a slender turned mullion. There is a plaster ceiling above the stallboard and Row.

There is one window to each of the third and fourth storeys, with painted-stone sills and wedge lintels. The third storey has a recessed four-pane horned sash window, and there is an original recessed nine-pane sash window to the fourth storey, below a painted stone cornice.

INTERIOR: there is a glazed panel in the Row shop entrance, which shows an angled timber brace, and wattle and daub forming part of the east party wall. This is in-situ and suggests the substantial presence, otherwise covered, in the Row, and possibly undercroft storeys, of the C17 structure. There is an early-C19 cornice in the Row storey and some C19 cornices in the third storey. The east wall in the fourth storey is timber framed, indicating that the front and back parts of the property, each built independently, are both C17.

Listing NGR: SJ4059266278

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 470214
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, A, The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project, (1999), p172
Other
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1902).
Kelly's Directory of Cheshire (1910)

Legal

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