19 Northgate Street
19, Northgate Street, CH1 2HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376343
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 19 Northgate Street
- Statutory Address:
- 19, Northgate Street, CH1 2HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376343
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 19 Northgate Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19, Northgate Street, CH1 2HA
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:
- 19, Northgate Street, CH1 2HA
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 40512 66367
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 11 December 2024 to Update Name, Address and Details, add Selected Sources and reformat the text to current standards
SJ4066SE
595-1/4/281
CHESTER CITY (IM)
NORTHGATE STREET
No. 19
(Formerly Listed as NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW (West side) No.19 Street, previously listed as NORTHGATE STREET (West side) No 19 Row)
10/01/72
GV
II
19 Northgate Street was built as a shop above a medieval undercroft in around 1900. It formed part of the reconstruction of a group of buildings known as ‘Shoemakers’ Row’ (3 to 31 Northgate Street) between 1897 and 1909. The redevelopment of the Row was prompted by concerns over insanitary conditions in the congested Northgate area, alongside a renewed interest in the vernacular style, and was carried out as part of a municipal road widening project at the end of the C19. It was probably designed by John Douglas, then senior partner of Douglas and Minshull architects, and is in the Vernacular Revival style. Douglas (1830-1911) was prolific across the region and acted as architect on several other buildings in the Shoemakers’ Row redevelopment and developed 5-9 Northgate Street himself. The rebuilding of Shoemakers Row lowered the ‘Row’ element of the building to just above street level and the medieval undercrofts survive below the street level and operate as cellars. The building is of sandstone and timber-frame construction with plaster panels and a grey-green slate roof.
EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys with a former undercroft, now a cellar.
The Row is at ground level and is two steps above the pavement. It has an arcade of three bays with two slender Tuscan columns of painted sandstone between antae.
The second storey is carried on a plain bressumer with a moulded fascia, above which are narrow and braced plaster panels. There is a central oriel window of six lights with moulded mullions and transoms, the end lights forming quadrants and the two central lights projecting further as a semi-circular bow. There is an adjoining transomed sidelight to each side.
The third storey is jettied on carved brackets and has braced panels. There are two canted oriel windows of five lights with moulded mullions on central brackets. Above each oriel is a jettied gable with two ornate quatrefoil panels and moulded bargeboards.
The rear elevation is of brick.
INTERIOR: there is medieval stonework in the rear stockroom at the Row level. The undercroft is not readily accessible and was not inspected at the time of survey.
Listing NGR: SJ4051266367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
C Hartwell, M Hyde, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (2011), p267
Brown, A, The Rows of Chester: The Chester Rows Research Project, (1999), p123, 175
Websites
Information on John Douglas from A Biographical Dictionary of the Architects of Greater Manchester, accessed 2 March 2023 from https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/architects/john-douglas
Other
Cheshire Archives: Reference ZDS/3/769 (1938).
Harris, R. Chester Rows Research Project Archive: Northgate Street (1989-).
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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