Number 21 Row Number 27 Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/158 (North side) 10/01/72 No.27 Street and No.21 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.27 Street & No.21 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now street shop and Row shop. Rebuilt early C18, extended to rear early C19 and refurbished at front mid C19. Painted stone-dressed brick, in Flemish bond to front; roof concealed. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of one bay, including street and Row levels. 2 free-standing cast-iron columns with moulded bases and capitals of C13 form in front of recessed street-level shopfront with carved 1-pane window to each side of double door with a glazed panel above a short fielded panel; painted stone end-piers through street and Row storeys; cast-iron spearhead railings and 2 columns to the Row-front, with similar responds against the end-piers; covered sloped stallboard 2.1m from front to back, with painted stone end-walls; covered surface to Row-walk; probably early C18 chamfered cross-beam above rear of stallboard; modern shopfront of no interest. Moulded bressumer to Row opening; the third and fourth storeys have rusticated quoins of painted stone. The windows are probably in C18 openings, but with mid C19 Jacobethan embellishment: stone sills, long-and-short work jambs and cornices crowned with strapwork; the third storey has two 6-pane sashes, the fourth storey a broad window of three 3-pane sashes, all recessed. Moulded parapet beneath a shaped central gable with Chester City arms on a Jacobethan cartouche, flanked to each side between a pair of panelled stone pilasters. Moulded stone coping to gable and parapets. INTERIOR: the street and Row level shops, with surfaces lined, have no visible features of interest. The third storey, divided by a modern partition, has a sub-panel and architrave to each window, a covered fireplace in breast on west wall and a ceiling formerly of 3 panels, now 2, having cross-beams with moulded arrises and cornices. The rear room has a blocked corner fireplace with stone hearth, a chamfered beam stopped to west and covered to east and a 12-pane sash. The early C18 open-well stair is intact between third and fourth storeys, with closed string, capped square newels, 2 stout barleysugar balusters per step and a moulded rail of early C18 section.

The rear wing behind the light-well, probably formerly a separate subsidiary dwelling, has 16-pane sashes. The fourth storey front room has a single panel beneath the broad window and a replaced fireplace in a corner breast. The second room, lit by a skylight, has a door of 2 panels to the outer face and with 4 battens and a middle stile to the inner face, on old long hinges. The back room in the main block has corner fireplace with moulded sandstone mantel. A closet has a 2-panel door. The rear wing has a 6-panel door and a 9-pane sash. The stair has a 16-pane sash.

Listing NGR: SJ4061866336