6 Eastgate Street and 4 Eastgate Row South

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 19 February 2025 to update the description and add Source and reformat the text to current standards

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/170

CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) No.6 Street and No.4 Row

GV II

6 Eastgate Street and 4 Eastgate Row South is an undercroft, Row and townhouse, probably rebuilt in the 1830s. The undercroft and Row are shops in retail use and the upper floors are in residential/office use (2024). It is constructed of red sandstone and brown brick, and has a hipped grey-slate roof with its ridge at right-angles to the front.

The building is of four storeys, which includes the undercroft and Row.

At street level the undercroft has a modern shopfront. There are seven repaired sandstone steps up to the Row walkway.

The Row has an ornate cast-iron front railing and a sloping raised timber boarded stallboard that measures 1.6m from front to back. The Row walkway is boarded and has a plaster ceiling with exposed joists. The Row has a modern shopfront. Two red sandstone end piers extend from street level to Row level; the capitals of which are of classical derivation and support coved stone brackets to the bressumer of the storey above. The Row-top bressumer is covered.

The third storey has a pair of square Edwardian four-light oriel windows with patterned leaded-glazing above transoms and cornices. They are separated by a three-centred arch with decorated spandrels, all of painted timber.

The fourth storey has two casement windows of four lights with painted-stone sills and lintels. Above a moulded stringcourse are two courses of painted brick, a moulded cornice, and a parapet of painted brick. There is a lateral chimney to the east.

INTERIOR: the shops at the undercroft and Row levels have been lined.

Listing NGR: SJ4054666273