NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET

NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET, 5 AND 7, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376420
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET, 5 AND 7, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW

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Date:: 2001-08-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376420
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET, 5 AND 7, WATERGATE 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:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 STREET, 5 AND 7, WATERGATE 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 40492 66263

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/382 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.5 & 7 Street (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET Nos 5 & 7 Street & Nos 5 & 7 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now 2 undercroft shops, a double Row shop and 2 vacant storeys. C15 or later, largely rebuilt as town house and shops 1803 and later. Sandstone and brown brick; grey slate roof not visible from front. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, including street and Row levels; 2 main bays. 2 modern shopfronts to street; shopfront of earlier C20 character with door near centre to Row. Brick piers with plastered inner faces, with painted octagonal column at centre of each bay of Row; wooden rail on stick balusters; 4-panel doors to upper storeys left of No.5 and right of No.7. 16-pane sash to third storey of No.7; 4-pane sash to third storey of No.5 and one to each bay of fourth storey. Flat gauged brick heads to third storey windows; simple cambered heads to fourth storey. Plain brick gable chimney at each end. Cast-iron rainwater head, pipe and brackets; upper bracket dated 1803. Rear elevation not visible. INTERIOR: late medieval rubble sandstone walling to undercroft of No.5, with inserted brick barrel-vault, probably C18; 2 chamfered oak beams, the first approximately 4 feet behind shopfront. Chimney breast on right wall, behind second beam; 2 replaced beams further back; blocked stair with stone treads and brick risers against west wall formerly led to Row storey. The structure of the undercroft to No.7 is hidden. No visible features of interest at Row level; the upper storeys could not be inspected, but are stated to have been gutted. (Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC & Turner RC: Archive for Watergate Street 2-3: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SJ4049266263

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Legacy System number:: 470416
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.