Number 21 And 23 Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. Shop, cafe. 2 related planning applications.

Number 21 And 23 Street

WRENN ID
tired-transept-acorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1955
Type
Shop, cafe
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 21 and 23 Street is a shop that was formerly used as living accommodation, now functioning as a shop and café. It is situated on the site of one or two medieval tenements and was built in 1897 by H. Beswick for Charles Brown. The building has no medieval undercrofts, but the cellars contain Roman items. The exterior is made of sandstone and timber-frame with plaster panels, topped with a clay tile roof.

The building has a cellar and three storeys, though it has been converted to two storeys. The Row is elevated two steps above the pavement and features an arcade with narrow cusped archways on either side of a broader central opening. The red sandstone end-piers and two stop-chamfered intermediate posts rest on sandstone plinths and are adorned with carved jetty-brackets. The central opening is supported by cusped brackets in the bressumer.

On the second storey, there is continuous mullioned and transomed leaded glazing, with a four-light canted oriel on brackets above each side-arch and paired three-light casements above the central opening. The third storey is jettied and supported by five principal posts with spiral colonnettes, featuring carved brackets and an ornate skirt at the base of the front gable. Four pargeted panels inscribed "18:C:B:97" are located beneath a six-light mullioned casement, which has three curved struts on each side. The gable displays ornate panels above the casement, shaped bargeboards on paired brackets, a carved finial, and cast-iron rainwater heads.

The rear of the building is constructed of brick and lacks features of special interest. The cellar of No. 21 contains a Roman pit, while No. 23 has remains from a Roman principia. The upper storeys do not have any visible features of interest. Nos. 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as "Saddler's Row" and were previously listed as Row numbers.

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