Number 21 Street Number 25 Row

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SJ4066SW 595-1/4/62

CHESTER CITY (IM) BRIDGE STREET No 21

AND

BRIDGE STREET ROW EAST No 25

(Formerly listed as BRIDGE STREET AND ROW (East side) No.21 Street and No.25 Row, previously listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.21 Street & No.25 Row)

10/01/72

GV II

Number 21 Bridge Street and 25 Bridge Street Row East comprise a stone undercroft, of medieval origin, below a Row shop and former townhouse that were substantially altered and re-fronted in the early C19 but contain some late-C17 or C18 timber and brickwork. In common with a number of other premises along Bridge Street, from the mid-C19 to early C20 the single shop to the undercroft was occupied by various butchers, before becoming a grocers. The Row shop was a stationers in 1878 and a perfumers in 1902. In 2021, the undercroft and Row shops remained in separate occupancy and were in retail use. The use of the upper floors is not known. The building is constructed of red-brown brick and has a grey slate roof with its ridge at right-angles to the street.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four narrow storeys, including an undercroft and Row. The undercroft has a modern shopfront to the street. The end-piers to the undercroft and Row storeys are cased in wood.

The Row has a cast-iron railing to the front opening with a bottom rail, stick balusters and a plain rail. The stallboard measures 1.69m from front to back and both it and the Row walk are covered in vinyl. The Row has a modern shopfront and boxed end-beams. A wooden fascia covers the Row-front bressumer.

The upper storeys are constructed in Flemish bond brickwork and have painted stone sills, wedge lintels and a cornice beneath a low stone parapet. There is a nine over nine-pane nearly flush sash window to the third storey. The fourth storey has a recessed nine-over-nine pane sash with horizontally proportioned panes.

INTERIOR: the undercroft has a chamfered oak beam under the back of the stallboard which is stopped at its south end. The south wall has a bridging beam on five damaged stone corbels. This carries 10 visible large square cross-joists which have their north ends covered. The Row and upper storeys are almost wholly lined. The fourth storey has corner chimney breasts and plaster cornices in the front and second rooms and a single six-panel Georgian door.

Listing NGR: SJ4056266233