Number 6 Row Number 8 Street

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SJ4066SE 595-1/4/171

CHESTER CITY (IM) EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (South side) No.8 Street and No.6 Row

(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET No.8 Street and No.6 Row)

10/01/72

GV II

8 Eastgate Street and 6 Eastgate Row South form an undercroft, Row and townhouse rebuilt in the early C19 as shops with accommodation above. The building is believed to have replaced an earlier structure on the site, and the possible remains of a medieval party wall survive in the undercroft. The Row shopfront was altered in around 1975, and stone repairs to the façade were undertaken in 2015. Both the undercroft and Row remain (2024) in shop use with storage above. The building is constructed of ashlar sandstone and has a hipped grey-slate roof, with its ridge parallel with Eastgate Street.

At street level the undercroft has a shopfront with a round arch to each side of a broader segmental arch, all stop-chamfered. There is a shaped, glazed doorway in the central arch and plate-glass windows in the other arches.

The Row has a tall opening to the street with an ornate panelled cast-iron railing between painted end piers. The piers may be of stone and have inset wooden panels. There is a sloped, boarded stallboard measuring 1.5m from front to back and the surface of the Row walkway has been covered. The Row has a modern shopfront. Above the walkway is a corniced ceiling, which has been covered. A painted-timber entablature over the Row opening has lion heads at the corners of the frieze and dentils to the cornice. Ashlar stonework is exposed to each side of the pilasters and throughout the third and fourth storeys. The third storey has three altered sash windows in recessed architraves.

The fourth storey has three recessed six-over-six sash windows in simple openings with deep sills carried on cyma corbels. Above is a stone cornice and parapet. To the roof there is a brick lateral chimney set back to the west.

INTERIOR: there are five steps down to the undercroft. There is masonry in the cupboard behind the eastern shop window, which may indicate a medieval party wall. The other surfaces in the shops at both the undercroft and Row levels are covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4055166274