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NUMBER 20 STREET NUMBERS 16 AND 18 ROW

NUMBER 20 STREET, 20, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376069
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 20 STREET NUMBERS 16 AND 18 ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 20 STREET, 20, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376069
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 20 STREET NUMBERS 16 AND 18 ROW
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 20 STREET, 20, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 16 AND 18 ROW, 16 AND 18, BRIDGE 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 20 STREET, 20, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 16 AND 18 ROW, 16 AND 18, BRIDGE 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:: SJ4051966227

Details

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/41 10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (IM) BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (West side)

No.20 Street and Nos.16 & 18 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.20 Street & Nos. 16 & 18 Row (The Plane Tree)) II

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Shop and accommodation, now shop and office, probably on site of 2 former undercrofts and town houses. 1873. By TM Lockwood who, as usual in his work, retained no elements of the previous building. Brick, timber framing with painted brick and plaster panels; half-hipped red clay tile roof; symmetrical front, a pastiche. EXTERIOR: shopfront of hard stone tiles, probably 1930s, has Art Deco vent and later door and window; flight of 12 steep steps south of shopfront to Row. The Row front has heavy turned balusters and timber rail; cast-iron rail between steps and stallboard; the stallboard is approx 3m from front to back; stone pier at each end backed by brickwork; 2 intermediate moulded octagonal posts; continuous stop-chamfered joists over stallboard and Row walk; painted brick wall to rear of Row has 3 blocked top-lights to street level shop, recessed porch with 3 steps and door of 2 short, 2 long and 2 short panels with 3-pane overlight; three windows of 2 1-pane lights with colonnette mullions, transom and 4 upper panes, 2 windows being north of the porch and one, narrower, south; framed and boarded passage door, south, with one step; brick relieving arches at each end over Row. Above the Row front a deep bressumer carries a jetty-beam on brackets; wrought-iron sign-bracket. The third and fourth storeys are expressed in 3 bays, the projecting central bay capped by a gable and the side bays small-framed. The third storey has a central canted 5-light oriel with convex pargeted sub-panels flanked by a cross-window in each side-bay. The fourth storey is jettied; the central bay has a timber balcony on shaped brackets with balusters and ornate corner-posts supporting the gable, before 2 cross-windows; each side-bay has a mullioned 2-light casement. The third and fourth storey windows retain shaped leaded stained glazing in upper lights but the former rectangular leaded panes in lower lights are removed. The gable has a coved jetty, herringbone struts, arched bargeboards and weather vane. Above the adjoining properties, the sidewalls are small-framed; a shaped brick

chimney at each end. INTERIOR: at street level the shop and cafe has a row of 5 probably timber Delian columns; some plaster mouldings to beams and cornices. The Row and upper storeys, a solicitor's office, could not be inspected thoroughly; the open-well stair to the third storey is covered and probably altered; the internal doors are covered; some moulded cornices; the former main stair to the fourth storey is removed, now a light-well; an 1873 secondary stair to the fourth storey. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ 40519 66227

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Legacy System number:: 470055
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.