51 Watergate Street and 59 Watergate Row South

51, WATERGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376444
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 51 Watergate Street and 59 Watergate Row South
Statutory Address:: 51, WATERGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376444
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 51 Watergate Street and 59 Watergate Row South
Statutory Address 1:: 51, WATERGATE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 59, WATERGATE ROW SOUTH

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:: 51, WATERGATE STREET
Statutory Address:: 59, WATERGATE ROW SOUTH

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 40384 66231

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/09/2014

SJ4066SW 595-1/3/396

CHESTER CITY (IM), WATERGATE STREET AND ROW (South side), No. 51 Street and No. 59 Row

(Formerly listed as No. 53 Street and No.59 Row, WATERGATE STREET AND ROW (South side)) (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET, No.53 Street & No.59 Row)

28/07/55

GV II

Shops and town house now office and possibly flat. Rebuilt early to mid C18. Sandstone, partly rendered, to street and Row, Flemish bond brown brick above. 4 storeys, with gable to front. Modern shopfront and entrance to street. Central Tuscan column to Row, with rail on turned balusters of painted wood; late Georgian shopfront has 4-pane window on base with 2 broad panels; pilasters, frieze and cornice. Small camber-arched opening in right pier to Row. Each upper storey has 2 flush 12-pane sashes under gauged brick arches; those to third storey have projecting keystones formed of 3 large shaped bricks. The brickwork above fourth storey windows is rebuilt. A modern brick extension hides the rear. At time of survey (June 1989) No.59 Row was unoccupied and access could not be gained to the upper storeys.

Listing NGR: SJ4038466231

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Legacy System number:: 470445
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.