Number 50 Row
NUMBER 50 ROW, 50, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376243
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Number 50 Row
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 50 ROW, 50, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376243
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 50 Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 50 ROW, 50, EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
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.
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 50 ROW, 50, 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 40663 66304
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/185 (South side) 28/07/55 No.50 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.50 Row)
GV II
Formerly known as: No.52 Row EASTGATE STREET. Shop and offices on site of former town house. Rebuilt 1963-65 with facsimile facade, to Eastgate Street only, of the former early C18 building. Brown brick in English garden wall bond with grey slate roof at right-angle to front. 4 storeys of one bay; the Row walk descends to street level at east of frontage. Plinths of cream stone carry end piers with Roman Doric responds; 2 intermediate columns; plain stone-faced frieze and band above Row opening. Rusticated quoins to upper storeys; nearly flush 12-pane horned sashes with minuscule sills and gauged brick flat arches, 3 to the second storey and one each to the third and fourth storeys; moulded string courses at third and fourth storey floors; shaped gable with moulded stone coping and pineapple finial. INTERIOR: entirely rebuilt 1963-1965 by Sir Percy Thomas and Son as part of the Grosvenor-Laing precinct. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ4066366304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470237
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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