6 AND 8, WATERGATE STREET, 4, WATERGATE ROW

4, WATERGATE ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376421
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, WATERGATE STREET, 4, WATERGATE ROW
Statutory Address:: 4, WATERGATE 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:: 1376421
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Sep-2003
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, WATERGATE STREET, 4, WATERGATE ROW
Statutory Address 1:: 4, WATERGATE ROW
Statutory Address 2:: 6 AND 8, WATERGATE STREET

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:: 4, WATERGATE ROW
Statutory Address:: 6 AND 8, WATERGATE 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 40505 66291

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/406 (North side) 28/07/55 Nos.6 & 8 Street and Nos.6 & 8 Row (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET Nos 2-10 (even) Street & Nos 2-8 (even) Row incl. Victoria Hotel & Deva Hotel)

GV II

2 undercrofts and town houses now offices. The front rebuilt early C19, the rear elevation mid C18 in character, the interior rebuilt as offices 1970s. Brown Flemish bond brick; slate roof, ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels. Modern office front to street; brick end piers to Row; a slender central Tuscan column supports bressumer over Row; plain square-section iron railings; front of office to Row rebuilt; rear passage at west; two 20-pane sashes to each upper storey, with painted stone sills and skew-back flat brick arches; painted cornice. The rear elevation, c1750 was restored 1970s. It has a 6-panel door with looped radial-bar overlight in a reconstructed pilastered timber doorcase and two 16-pane sashes between door and rear passage; a moulded stone plinth; a one-course stringcourse on corbel bricks set diagonally at first floor; three 24-pane sashes to second storey; three 16-pane dwarf sashes to third storey; all sashes are flush, with replaced timber sills and cambered brick arches; stringcourse of 3 successively oversailing courses carries a low stone-capped brick parapet. INTERIOR: there are no visible internal features of interest, but some sections of probably late medieval rubble sandstone walling were noted in 1988. (Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC & Turner RC: Watergate Street: 1988-: 31).

Listing NGR: SJ4050566291

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Legacy System number:: 470417
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.