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NUMBER 40 ROW NUMBER 40 STREET

NUMBER 40 ROW, 40, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376086
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 40 ROW NUMBER 40 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 40 ROW, 40, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376086
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1989
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 40 ROW NUMBER 40 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 40 ROW, 40, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBER 40 STREET, 40, 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 40 ROW, 40, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 40 STREET, 40, 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:: SJ 40529 66159

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/49 (West side) 10/01/89 No.40 Street and No.40 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.40)

GV II

Vintner's shop and offices, now office unoccupied. Substantially rebuilt 1858. By James Harrison for Welsby's. Stone-dressed brick, painted, and brown brick with tiled roof at right-angle to Bridge Street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercroft and Row levels; loose Gothic Revival. The office front to the street is rendered, with door and window altered; a projecting porch, north, and a shaped timber bracket, south, support a projecting balcony in front of the Row walk; renewed wooden balusters and rail; unpainted yellow sandstone end-piers with stopped ovolo chamfers and cusped brackets on foliar corbels support a bressumer with stopped reeded chamfer; altered steps and concrete footbridge across Pierpoint Lane, 1970s; sandstone riser and flag pavement to balcony; concreted Row walk; painted stone rear wall has shopfront in a shoulder-arched opening with, each shouldered, a central shortened mid C19 part-glazed 3-panel door with 1-pane overlight and a 1-pane window of vertical proportion to each side; south of the shopfront a shoulder-arched passage entry has a door with central reed and 4 panels, the lower pair raised and the upper pair with cusped heads beneath a plain overlight; archway over north end of Row walk has moulded chamfers to stone lintel on shaped brackets; narrow stop-chamfered joists to plastered ceiling. The upper storeys of stone-dressed brick have flush quoins; the third storey has a stone-corbelled 4-light canted oriel with 4-pane sashes in shoulder-arched lights and a hipped lead roof; the fourth storey has a moulded band beneath the flush sill of a triple sash of 2; 2; 2 panes with arched heads; the stone-dressed front gable has a shaped kneeler, moulded coping and foliar-headed octagonal finial. The north face to Pierpoint Lane, of brown brick in irregular bond is evidently older than the Bridge Street front and visible internal features; the third storey has 2 dual sashes of 8; 8 panes with painted stone sills and cambered brick heads. The rear has a probably inserted full-width segmental brick arch infilled C20 with weatherboarded face; evidence of a

2-storey gabled rear wing, now demolished; a dual sash and a single sash, each small and of 2 panes, to the third storey and a dual sash of 8; 8 panes to the fourth storey; the shaped kneeler and coping to the rear gable were probably added 1858. INTERIOR: the undercroft, 3 steps down, is covered in modern linings. The Row storey has cornices, probably 1858; the third and fourth storeys could not be inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Builder v.16 p.269, April 17 1858 reported on this site: "In excavating for new buildings opposite the Feathers Inn, several bases of Roman character have been discovered at a depth of 4 feet below the surface. They are in their original positions, forming a colonnade, placed four yards apart, resting on large blocks of stone 12 inches thick. The new building will be of brick, with white stone dressings, in the medieval style of fourteenth century, presenting a gable to the street, and having a projecting bow-window to the room over the Row. A shop in Bridge Street Row is also to have timber work characteristic of Chester in the fourteenth century. Mr. Harrison is architect to both buildings." (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 167; The Builder: 1858-: 269).

Listing NGR: SJ4052966159

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 470074
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 167
'The Builder' in The Builder, (1858), 269

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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.