Number 29 Street Number 35 Row

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/65 (East side) 10/01/72 No.29 Street and No.35 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No.29 Street & No.35 Row)

GV II

Undercroft and town house, now undercroft office, Row shop and storage. Rebuilt c1800 and altered C19 and C20. Brown Flemish bond brickwork; grey slate roof, ridge at right-angle to the street, hipped to front. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, one bay. Heavily expressed timber office front to street; 12 repaired sandstone steps to Row, north; brick end piers through undercroft and Row storeys. Cast-iron railing to the Row-front has bars curved at feet and head and roses at crossings; bottom and top rails; 2 slender Roman Doric columns; tiled surface to sloped stallboard 1.78m from front to back; tiled Row walk; modern shopfront; plaster ceiling; modillion cornice to Row-top bressumer. The brick upper storeys have recessed sashes with painted stone sills and wedge lintels, 2 of 12 panes with added shutters to the third storey and 2 of 9 panes to the third storey; moulded cornice and low parapet of painted stone. INTERIOR: the undercroft, altered C19 and C20, is common with Nos 25 & 27 Street (qv). All surfaces in the Row and third storeys are covered; the fourth storey has simple plaster cornices in the front room and adjacent room; one 6-panel Georgian door. Fire damage to the interior c1960s is reported. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street East: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4056466211