NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET

NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET, 21 AND 23, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376344
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET, 21 AND 23, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Date:: 2002-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/07380/06
Rights:: © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376344
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET, 21 AND 23, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET, 21 AND 23, NORTHGATE 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 40510 66373

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/282 (West side) 28/07/55 Nos.21 & 23 Street (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET (West side) No 21 Row & No 23 Row)

GV II*

Shop formerly with living accommodation, now shop and cafe, on site of either one or 2 medieval tenements. The present building is 1897 by H Beswick for Charles Brown. There were no medieval undercrofts; the cellars incorporate Roman items. The interior was altered late C20. Sandstone, timber-frame with plaster panels, clay tile roof. EXTERIOR: cellar and 3 storeys, now converted to 2. The Row, 2 steps above pavement level, has an arcade with a narrow cusped archway to each side of a broader opening. Red sandstone end-piers and 2 stop-chamfered intermediate posts on sandstone plinths have carved jetty-brackets; the central opening has cusped brackets in the bressumer. The second storey has continuous mullioned and transomed leaded glazing with a 4-light canted oriel on brackets above each side-arch and paired 3-light casements above the central opening; 5 principal posts with spiral colonnettes support carved brackets to the jettied third storey which has an ornate skirt to the base of the front gable, 4 pargeted panels inscribed 18:C:B:97 beneath a mullioned casement of 6 leaded lights with 3 curved struts to each side; ornate panels above casement; shaped bargeboards on paired brackets; carved finial; cast-iron rainwater heads. The rear is of brick, with no features of special interest. INTERIOR: the cellar of No.21 contained a Roman pit; the cellar of No.23 has remains from Roman principia. The upper storeys have no visible features of interest. Nos 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as `Saddler's Row' and were previously listed as Row numbers. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 1897-; Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Northgate Street: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4051066373

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.