Number 35 Street Number 43 Row

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/391 (South side) 28/07/55 No.35 Street & No.43 Row (Formerly Listed as: WATERGATE STREET No.35 Street & No.43 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house then 2 shops and accommodation, now shop and restaurant. Possibly late medieval refaced and largely rebuilt internally from Row level up 1890 for Charles Brown, probably by TM Lockwood. Sandstone, timber frame and brick; grey slate roof gabled to front and rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; one bay. C20 shopfront to street. Row shopfront, now to restaurant, of timber has 3 basket arches with fluted pilasters, the entrance altered within the central arch; to each side a 3-panel stallboard and window. The Row front has timber rail on barleysugar balusters; sloped boarded stallboard; granolithic Row walk; side wall to west exposed to back passage in No.45 Row (qv) has probably late medieval stonework under later brickwork, painted. Central and end posts to bressumer over Row front, with shaped brackets; slightly jettied fascia inscribed IN THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH. The close-studded third storey has a projecting mullioned and transomed 7-light casement, now with no glazing bars; 3 angled braces to each side of casement above eaves level; jetty beam above has cartouche inscribed : 1890 : B; three ornate quadrant-braced panels; herringbone bracing in apex of gable; bargeboards; ornate hollow finial. The rear is hidden by a C20 extension. INTERIOR: a chamfered beam in third storey on an inserted timber corbel, west; a king-post truss in fourth storey has possibly C17 timbers. Most visible features are C19. At the back of a sunken rear yard attached to the building, the base of a Roman column in situ shows that the Roman ground level was one metre higher than the undercroft floor. (Chester Rows Research Project: Brown AN & Grenville JC & Turner RC: Watergate Street: Chester: 1988-; Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 25/6/1890).

Listing NGR: SJ4042066239