NUMBERS 40, 42 AND 44 STREET NUMBERS 42-48 ROW

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SJ4066SE 595-1/4/184

CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) Nos.40, 42 & 44 Street and Nos.42-48 (even) Row

(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.38 Street & No.44 Row, previously listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.36 Street & No.42 Row) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos 46 & 48 Row)

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GV II

46 & 48 Eastgate Street & 42, 44, 46 & 48 Eastgate Row South is an early-C20 building built with three shops to both the undercroft and Row levels, with ancillary use and offices above. It was constructed in 1912, on the site of earlier buildings, to the designs of the Lockwood Partnership, a family of architects who had become well known in Chester by the end of the C19. Their work includes numerous buildings in the Vernacular Revival style, including along Bridge Street, such as the corner building to Bridge Street and Eastgate Street (1 Bridge Street, 1 Bridge Street Row East and 2 Eastgate Street). Plans for alterations to 42 Eastgate Row South for Phillipson and Golden, designed by Philip Lockwood, had been approved in 1909, but a further application for rebuilding 48 Eastgate Row South by William Lockwood was approved in 1912.

The building was designed for Bolland’s confectioners, wedding cake makers by Royal appointment, and previously tenants of the adjacent building at 38 Eastgate Street and 40 Eastgate Street Row South. In the mid-to-late C20 the building became part of the adjacent department store Browns, but by the early C21 the Row shops had become two separate retail premises with ancillary uses above, and two shops to the undercroft.

The building is timber-framed with plaster panels. It has a grey-slate roof and three front gables from the main ridge, which is parallel with the street. It is of four storeys, including an undercroft and Row, and is of three bays.

At street level the undercroft has modern shopfronts.

The Row storey has modern shopfronts, and 46 Eastgate Street has seven sandstone steps up to the Row level. There is a boxed bressumer beam over the Row front that supports the third storey.

The third storey has close-studded timber framing with a mid-rail and three shallow five-light mullioned and transomed leaded oriel windows.

The fourth storey is also close-studded and is boldly jettied on four quadrant brackets. It has a mid-rail and three mullioned five-light leaded casement windows standing proud of the wall-face. There are three front gables with panelled herringbone struts and plain bargeboards. Stylistically it is relatively low key, in contrast with the earlier C19 frontages in Eastgate Street.

INTERIORS: There is no visible earlier fabric.

Listing NGR: SJ4065266299