11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376295
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376295
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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:
- 11 AND 11A, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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 40589 66054
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/4/248 (East side) 18/08/71 Nos.11 AND 11A
GV II
Undercroft and town house, now shop and offices. Undercroft pre C18, extended C18; frontage c1760; cellar C19. Sandstone and brown brick in Flemish bond to front; some render; hipped grey slate roof with ridge at right-angle to front. EXTERIOR: cellar and 4 storeys including street and Row levels. The rendered shopfront has, in the front wall, a simple 1-pane window to each side of a modern glazed door with sidelights; fascia has 2 moulded brackets and lead flashing. The Row, reached from stair in No.9 Lower Bridge Street (qv), has timber rail on turned balusters to front, rendered end piers, 2 unfluted Doric pillars, a level stallboard 3.3m from front to back, a boarded Row walk and a timber bressumer, 2 beams probably of oak across the south end, a replaced door of 6 fielded panels with 3-pane overlight and a replaced window to rear of Row walk. The third storey has 3 almost flush 12-pane sashes and the fourth storey three 6-pane sashes. Some sashes are replaced, with horns; all have painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones. Parapet with plain coping; lateral chimney, south. The rear has replaced door in round-arched opening and replaced windows in openings with cambered heads, one to the second storey and 2 each to the third and fourth storeys. INTERIOR: has a probably early C19 rock-cut cellar 2.4m below floor level with damaged rock-cut steps. The pre-C18 undercroft has features covered. Beginning 11.75m behind street the C18 rear extension is barrel vaulted in brick; no evidence of access from Row level. The Row storey has a side-passage, doors of 6 fielded panels, an open-well open-string stair with shaped brackets and 3 column-on-vase balusters per step; the under-stair cupboard has a 4-panel door on HL hinges. The third storey landing has a probably early C18 archway; doors of 6 fielded panels; the fourth storey front room has skirting, dado rail with one row of linenfold panelling beneath and 2 rows above; cornice at door-head level; king-post truss and purlins. (Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street East: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SJ4058966054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470290
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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