53, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
53, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376311
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376311
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, 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:
- 53, 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 40628 65956
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/6/259 (East side) 10/01/72 No.53
GV II
Undercroft and humble town house, now shop and accommodation. Medieval origin altered early C18 and C19. Timber frame, painted brickwork and roof of grey slate, ridge at right-angle to the front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys of one narrow bay. Front rebuilt probably C18, altered later, of brick. Replaced door, south, of 2-panes above a boarded panel; C19 shop window north of door has 6 panes in a timber case with a lead-clad hood. Each upper storey has one recessed 12-pane sash with boxes exposed, tiled sills and cambered brick heads. Late C19 parapet to front gable, of patterned red and yellow brick with terracotta coping and ball finial. The south side to St Olave Street displays phases of building. Medieval red sandstone rubble walling remains towards rear, and a few visible stones further west. The late medieval posts, west of the bay, containing the westernmost window to the first and second storey, marks the front of the former Row walk; carpenters' marks are numbered from rear of the former Row walk, westward in the Row and stallboard bay, eastward in the domestic bays behind. The secondary framing in the Row and stallboard bay is probably late C17. Irregular window-pattern with leaded glazing. An old boarded door to the undercroft and a similar door in an inserted recessed porch with 8 repaired stone steps to the second storey. The flue is taken up through a south chimney of No.51 (qv), probably when that much taller building was constructed and the Row closed in 1700. The rear is built against. INTERIOR: the former undercroft, now first storey, has no features of special interest visible. In the former Row storey, now second storey, the front south corner post, beams and other framing are visible. An inglenook against the north wall at the eastern end has a stone heck, brick fireplace, massive bressumer and plastered smoke-hood. The closed-string stair against the north wall has turned newels with ball finials and slender turned balusters, probably mid C18. In the third storey the firehood and a damaged roof-truss are visible. (Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street, East: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SJ4062865956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470306
- 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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