Number 23 Row Number 29 Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/159 (North side) 10/01/72 No.29 Street and No.23 Row (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.29 Street & No.23 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now street shop & Row shop. Rebuilt from Row level upward probably mid C18 and altered early C19 and C20. Painted stone-dressed brickwork, Flemish bond to front; roof not visible. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of one bay, including street and Row levels. Modern street-level shopfront of no interest covers the lower part of end piers shown at Row level as painted rusticated stone. Early C19 cast-iron Row-front railings; stallboard 1.9m from front to back has surface covered and painted side-walls, probably of stone; the surface of the Row walk is covered; a segmental arch at each end; the shopfront to the Row, domestic in form, has window with glazing bars removed and a painted stone doorcase with eaved architrave and cornice; plaster ceiling with moulded cornice; moulded capitals to end-piers; bressumer covered. The third and fourth storeys have painted stone rusticated quoins. The third storey has a tripartite recessed sash formerly of 4;12;4 panes, with bars removed from lower leaf of central sash, in a stone case, unfortunately painted, with panelled plinth carrying panelled end-pilasters and square mullions, and frieze and cornice. The fourth storey floorband has thin rustication; the 3;9;3 pane tripartite sash has a painted stone case on four cyma corbels, eared architrave and pedimental head. Painted stone frieze and cornice with plain pedimental coping. INTERIOR: surfaces in the street shop, a restaurant when inspected, are covered, with no datable features exposed. The front room at Row level has door architrave and cornice; the rear room is stripped. The open-well stair has open string, replaced newels, 2 column-on-vase balusters per step and a swept rail, all painted; cornices under the stair and to landings. The third storey has cornices, architraves and a 16-pane sash to the rear. The fourth storey has a front-room cornice and 2 simple fireplaces; other features stripped.

Listing NGR: SJ4062366336