Number 50 Row

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/185 (South side) 28/07/55 No.50 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.50 Row)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.52 Row EASTGATE STREET. Shop and offices on site of former town house. Rebuilt 1963-65 with facsimile facade, to Eastgate Street only, of the former early C18 building. Brown brick in English garden wall bond with grey slate roof at right-angle to front. 4 storeys of one bay; the Row walk descends to street level at east of frontage. Plinths of cream stone carry end piers with Roman Doric responds; 2 intermediate columns; plain stone-faced frieze and band above Row opening. Rusticated quoins to upper storeys; nearly flush 12-pane horned sashes with minuscule sills and gauged brick flat arches, 3 to the second storey and one each to the third and fourth storeys; moulded string courses at third and fourth storey floors; shaped gable with moulded stone coping and pineapple finial. INTERIOR: entirely rebuilt 1963-1965 by Sir Percy Thomas and Son as part of the Grosvenor-Laing precinct. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ4066366304