11 And 11A, Lower Bridge Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/4/248 (East side) 18/08/71 Nos.11 AND 11A

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now shop and offices. Undercroft pre C18, extended C18; frontage c1760; cellar C19. Sandstone and brown brick in Flemish bond to front; some render; hipped grey slate roof with ridge at right-angle to front. EXTERIOR: cellar and 4 storeys including street and Row levels. The rendered shopfront has, in the front wall, a simple 1-pane window to each side of a modern glazed door with sidelights; fascia has 2 moulded brackets and lead flashing. The Row, reached from stair in No.9 Lower Bridge Street (qv), has timber rail on turned balusters to front, rendered end piers, 2 unfluted Doric pillars, a level stallboard 3.3m from front to back, a boarded Row walk and a timber bressumer, 2 beams probably of oak across the south end, a replaced door of 6 fielded panels with 3-pane overlight and a replaced window to rear of Row walk. The third storey has 3 almost flush 12-pane sashes and the fourth storey three 6-pane sashes. Some sashes are replaced, with horns; all have painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with false keystones. Parapet with plain coping; lateral chimney, south. The rear has replaced door in round-arched opening and replaced windows in openings with cambered heads, one to the second storey and 2 each to the third and fourth storeys. INTERIOR: has a probably early C19 rock-cut cellar 2.4m below floor level with damaged rock-cut steps. The pre-C18 undercroft has features covered. Beginning 11.75m behind street the C18 rear extension is barrel vaulted in brick; no evidence of access from Row level. The Row storey has a side-passage, doors of 6 fielded panels, an open-well open-string stair with shaped brackets and 3 column-on-vase balusters per step; the under-stair cupboard has a 4-panel door on HL hinges. The third storey landing has a probably early C18 archway; doors of 6 fielded panels; the fourth storey front room has skirting, dado rail with one row of linenfold panelling beneath and 2 rows above; cornice at door-head level; king-post truss and purlins. (Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street East: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SJ4058966054