Number 36 Row Numbers 30, 32 and 34 Street
NUMBER 36 ROW, 36, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376234
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Number 36 Row Numbers 30, 32 and 34 Street
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 36 ROW, 36, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376234
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 36 Row Numbers 30, 32 and 34 Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 36 ROW, 36, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 30, 32 AND 34 STREET, 30, 32 AND 34, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 36 ROW, 36, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 30, 32 AND 34 STREET, 30, 32 AND 34, 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 40627 66295
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/182 (South side) 28/07/55 Nos.30, 32 & 34 Street and No.36 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos 28-34 (even) Street & Nos 34-40 (even) Row)
GV II
Shop, now part of a department store with Nos 36-44 (even) Street and 38-48 (even) Row (qv). c1828, evidently altered mid C19 and reorganised internally C20. Yellow sandstone and lined render; grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys including undercroft and Row, plus attic. 3 windows, symmetrical. Broad central flight of 7 sandstone steps from street to Row, flanked by column-plinths; to east and west of plinths flights of 9 and 8 steps lead, via a lobby under the Row steps, to the undercroft storey; cast-iron double gates at the top of each flight to the undercroft; the undercroft storey has a shop-window flanked by an anta pier, to each side of entrance. The Row front has Classical cast-iron spearhead railings, a fluted Doric column to each side of the steps and an anta at each end; stallboards removed, formerly 1.5m front to back; terrazzo Row walk; replaced recessed glazed door with window to each side having colonnette mullions and shaped top corners to panes; lattice panels above shopfront; ceiling of octagonal and lozenge panels. Stone entablature to Row opening, with third storey sillband above cornice. Central double French window with architrave, pediment and wrought-iron guard-rail; a similar French window to each side under flat entablature. The fourth storey has a plain sillband to 3 recessed sashes with glazing bars removed; cornice. The attic storey has a central pedimented gable containing a recessed sash with glazing bars removed; parapet to each side with panel of 5 vase balusters and moulded cornice. The false-mansard roof, set back, has a dormer to each side of the front gable; brick lateral chimney, east. INTERIOR: a pair of parallel barrel-vaulted undercrofts of C18 form. The Row storey has 2 octagonal ceiling panels visible behind the entrance. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Eastgate Street South: 1989-1990; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh).
Listing NGR: SJ4062766295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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