Number 44 Row Number 44 Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/51 (West side) No.44 Street and No.44 Row

GV II

Undercroft and town house rebuilt probably late C19 as an extension to department store comprising Nos.44, 46, 48 and 50 Street and Row (qv). Brick, sandstone and cast-iron; grey slate roof with ridge at right angle to front. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys including undercroft and Row levels. Cast-iron columns behind modern shopfront to street; sandstone end-piers partly concealed at street level and chamfered at Row level; Row front has wrought-iron railing with spear-headed principal balusters and serpentine common balusters and scroll-ornamented double rail as in No.46 Street (qv); 2 cast-iron Doric columns; no stallboard; granolithic Row walk; painted rear wall to Row has modern framed and boarded double doors with a tripartite sash of 4;16;4 panes north and a 16-pane sash south, both with panelled shutters on HL hinges; boxed beam at each end; plastered ceiling; modillion cornice below covered bressumer to third storey. The upper storeys, of painted English garden wall bond brickwork, have 4 recessed 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads to the third storey, 4 similar sashes, but shorter, to the fourth storey, a 3-course dentil band at attic level; 2 sashes as to the fourth storey, but under blocked brick basket-arches with hood-courses and shaped brick keys; coped gable on corbelled attic-storey brick end- pilasters. INTERIOR: the cast-iron columns with simple basemoulds and foliar capitals are the only visible features of interest. Included for group value. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4052566145