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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: NUMBER 38 STREET NUMBERS 36 AND 38 ROW

List entry Number: 1376082

Location

NUMBER 38 STREET, 38, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW
NUMBERS 36 AND 38 ROW, 36 AND 38, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 10-Jan-1972

Date of most recent amendment: 06-Aug-1998

Legacy System Information

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 470068

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

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History

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Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/48 (West side) 10/01/72 No.38 Street and Nos.36 & 38 Row (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET No 38 Street & Nos 36 & 38 Row)

GV II

Shop at street level, shop at Row level and warehouse, now bank and, in part of Row storey, a shop. 1897. By Douglas and Fordham. Pale yellow sandstone, stone-dressed brick and timber frame with plaster panels; grey-green slate roof, main ridge parallel with Bridge Street. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including street and Row levels; sandstone end piers to street and Row storeys, the south pier canted at corner of Pierpoint Lane. Shopfront to street, altered for Bank 1980s, has a central recessed entrance, stone stallriser and windows with basket-arched upper panes. The Row front of 3 basket arches has carved balusters, moulded handrail, carved timber pilasters against the end piers and 2 carved posts; screeded surfaces to stallboard and Row walk; archway through painted stone-dressed cross-wall, north; painted stone-dressed rear wall to Row has panelled door in recessed porch with 4 steps, a pair of 2-light stone mullioned and transomed windows and one similar separated window, all leaded above the transoms, a moulded beam, south, 2 hollow-stop-chamfered intermediate beams and a diagonal corner beam on moulded brackets; plastered ceiling. The jettied close-studded third storey has bressumer on ornate corner-bracket with carved-head corbel and mock-gargoyles at caps of posts; 2 canted 6-light oriels in front gable-end have concave timber-framed apron, 2 transoms, trefoil heads to upper lights and leaded glazing; the short north bay has a 3-light trefoil-headed leaded casement with middle light altered. The jettied gable has a carved cambered tie-beam dated 1897 on 6 shaped brackets, herringbone struts and shaped and pierced bargeboards. The south face to Pierpoint Lane of stone-dressed hard red brick in English garden wall bond has mullioned small-pane barred windows to the first storey, one of 4 lights, 2 of 3 lights and one of 2 lights; 2 central doorways, altered, each with a boarded door and timber-framed side-panel of herringbone brickwork; a blocked doorway, west has 4 tall herringbone panels with a 4-light fixed window above. The second storey has stone mullioned and transomed casements, 3 of 3 lights and one of 2 lights plus 3 of one light. The third



storey timber framing of the front is returned to Pierpoint Lane, terminating in a wood-mullioned 5-light leaded casement with 2 transoms under a small gable with carved tie-beam, 3 posts, plaster panels, carved bargeboards and drop finial; a wood-mullioned 3-light leaded casement; a corbelled chimney with 4 attached lozenge flues; 3 wood-mullioned 3-light leaded casements; a loading doorway blocked in timber-framed herringbone brickwork with a hoist-arm and a gabled cockloft dormer above. INTERIOR: has no publicly visible features of special interest. HISTORICAL NOTE: Chester City Council Improvement Committee Minute, 6 May 1897 may refer to this property, approving the erection of buildings in Bridge Street by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street West: 1989-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 167; Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 6/5/1897).





Listing NGR: SJ4052766170

Selected Sources

1. Article  Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard - Title: Cheshire - Date: 1971 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England - Page References: 167

National Grid Reference: SJ 40527 66170

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