4, WATERGATE ROW (See details for further address information)

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