NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376344
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 21 AND 23 STREET, 21 AND 23, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
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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)
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470339
- 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.
End of official listing
