Number 37 Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/163 (North side) 10/01/72 No.37 Street (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.37)

GV II

Shop and accommodation. Rebuilt 1892 by Charles A Ewing for Messrs Dickson. Timber frame with plaster panels to front, brick to rear, grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics; symmetrical. Modern shopfront of 4 basket-arched openings, 2 with glazed double doors and 2 with simple transomed windows. The second storey has a balcony between 2 canted 6-light oriels above coved aprons, with mullions and 2 transoms and patterned leaded glazing between transoms and head; hipped tiled roof above balcony and oriels, the balcony having high-level open framing with trefoil heads under the eaves; small framing between and beside the oriels. The third storey has a 5-bay central balcony with vase-moulded posts and flat ogee beams carrying high-level open framing; two 3-light French windows to balcony; a cross-window to each side with patterned leaded glazing above transom. A 5-bay cove-jettied balcony to the fourth storey, expressed as to the third storey, with a small-framed blank jettied wing to each side. The jettied front gable has panelled herringbone strutting and a 4-light mullioned and transomed leaded casement beneath a further jetty-beam carved with cartouche and foliage; carved bargeboards; elaborate pinnacled finial; brick chimney on each gable-end. Vigorous and very free in expression. INTERIOR: the lower 2 storeys are recast; upper storeys not inspected. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 15/6/1892).

Listing NGR: SJ4066566344