Number 10 Bridge Street, and Number 8 (part) Bridge Street Row West

Undercroft and town house forming part of the Chester Rows, with a small warehouse to the rear. Now a shop and office, it displays visible features from the 17th century alongside late-19th and 20th century alterations.

The building is a small three-storey structure of timber frame, render, brick and slate, occupying the end portion of the continuous walkway of Bridge Street West Rows. It comprises three elements: an undercroft, a galleried row, and an upper storey. The building faces east onto Bridge Street, with a 19th century workshop to the rear.

The undercroft has a late-20th century shopfront, with the floor level three steps down from street level. At Row level, the gallery features a timber balustrade to the front occupying almost the full height of the opening, with turned balusters and a wooden rail. The raised, sloping stallboard extends approximately 3 metres from back to front, encroaching some 1 metre onto the walkway in a 19th century alteration. Iron stick balusters run along the southern end of the stallboard. At the north end is a painted brick wall, possibly with stone banding, forming the end wall of the continuous walkway and part of the outer wall of the adjacent property, built in 1892. A jetty beam set one metre back from the front elevation shows two empty mortices marking earlier brace locations. Behind this, timber ceiling joists sit on a large intermediate beam spanning the stall and Row walkway. Evidence for a former hearth survives above the stall. The southern post carries a carved console bracket to the jetty beam and a straight timber brace to the front. The rear elevation of the walkway is blank, finished in painted brick with narrow timber studs.

Above the Row is a moulded timber fascia carrying five quatrefoil panels which may have been refixed. A slight jetty formed by a continuous moulded sill sits below two pairs of multipaned timber casement windows. Above rises a jettied gable with shaped fretted bargeboards and decorative finial, these probably being late-19th century imitations of 17th century elements. The front wall and gable are rendered and painted to suggest timber-framing, with herringbone braces depicted.

Internally, the undercroft comprises a shop unit wholly lined in modern cladding. A void above the modern suspended ceiling of the shop occupies the front part of the Row storey; behind, in the offices, features of likely interest are covered over. In the third storey, visible 17th century structural elements include the north wall plate on posts and an inserted corbel within the present north wall, which probably dates from the 1892 rebuilding of the adjacent property; two jowelled posts, now boarded, on the south side; and a partly visible tie-beam. In the rear chamber, a timber post, wall plates, tie-beam, purlins and braces are exposed. The third storey reveals the former building arrangement comprising a chamber above the Row walkway and former Row level shop, a three-sided galleried hall open to the roof, and a small rear chamber with a former stair. The gallery overlooking the east, north and south sides of the former hall looks down onto the false ceiling of the shop below. Above is a partly clad roof structure with an inserted rooflight. The rooms in the former warehouse behind are now offices.