NUMBER 21 ROW NUMBER 27 STREET

NUMBER 21 ROW, 21, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376231
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 21 ROW NUMBER 27 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 21 ROW, 21, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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Date:: 2006-03-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376231
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 21 ROW NUMBER 27 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 21 ROW, 21, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBER 27 STREET, 27, 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 21 ROW, 21, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 27 STREET, 27, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW

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 40618 66336

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/158 (North side) 10/01/72 No.27 Street and No.21 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.27 Street & No.21 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now street shop and Row shop. Rebuilt early C18, extended to rear early C19 and refurbished at front mid C19. Painted stone-dressed brick, in Flemish bond to front; roof concealed. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of one bay, including street and Row levels. 2 free-standing cast-iron columns with moulded bases and capitals of C13 form in front of recessed street-level shopfront with carved 1-pane window to each side of double door with a glazed panel above a short fielded panel; painted stone end-piers through street and Row storeys; cast-iron spearhead railings and 2 columns to the Row-front, with similar responds against the end-piers; covered sloped stallboard 2.1m from front to back, with painted stone end-walls; covered surface to Row-walk; probably early C18 chamfered cross-beam above rear of stallboard; modern shopfront of no interest. Moulded bressumer to Row opening; the third and fourth storeys have rusticated quoins of painted stone. The windows are probably in C18 openings, but with mid C19 Jacobethan embellishment: stone sills, long-and-short work jambs and cornices crowned with strapwork; the third storey has two 6-pane sashes, the fourth storey a broad window of three 3-pane sashes, all recessed. Moulded parapet beneath a shaped central gable with Chester City arms on a Jacobethan cartouche, flanked to each side between a pair of panelled stone pilasters. Moulded stone coping to gable and parapets. INTERIOR: the street and Row level shops, with surfaces lined, have no visible features of interest. The third storey, divided by a modern partition, has a sub-panel and architrave to each window, a covered fireplace in breast on west wall and a ceiling formerly of 3 panels, now 2, having cross-beams with moulded arrises and cornices. The rear room has a blocked corner fireplace with stone hearth, a chamfered beam stopped to west and covered to east and a 12-pane sash. The early C18 open-well stair is intact between third and fourth storeys, with closed string, capped square newels, 2 stout barleysugar balusters per step and a moulded rail of early C18 section.

The rear wing behind the light-well, probably formerly a separate subsidiary dwelling, has 16-pane sashes. The fourth storey front room has a single panel beneath the broad window and a replaced fireplace in a corner breast. The second room, lit by a skylight, has a door of 2 panels to the outer face and with 4 battens and a middle stile to the inner face, on old long hinges. The back room in the main block has corner fireplace with moulded sandstone mantel. A closet has a 2-panel door. The rear wing has a 6-panel door and a 9-pane sash. The stair has a 16-pane sash.

Listing NGR: SJ4061866336

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Legacy System number:: 470225
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.