33, Lower Bridge Street

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE LOWER BRIDGE STREET 595-1/4/254 (East side) 10/01/72 No.33

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now shop and office. Medieval origin largely rebuilt and refronted C18 and C19. Brown brick in a Flemish bond, partly a variant, one stretcher, 2 headers, one stretcher, to the front; grey slate roof with ridge at right-angle to front. 4 storeys, 2 windows. The shopfront in late C19 manner has a recessed central door with window to each side of one pane to street and one pane to recess; panelled timber stall-risers; pilasters; banded pier, north, matching that to No.35 south (qv). Each upper floor has two 4-pane windows, sashes to the second and third storey, one sash and one casement to the fourth storey; brick bands; replaced tile sills; square lintels; replaced boxed verge. INTERIOR: the side walls of the former undercroft, now shop, are covered but probably medieval, of stone; that to the north side is 700mm thick. The rear portion, perhaps formerly longer, has a C18 brick barrel vault. (Chester Rows Research Project: Grenville J: Lower Bridge Street, East: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SJ4061566006