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 11 AND 13 STREET
List entry Number: 1376338
Location
NUMBER 11 AND 13 STREET, 11 AND 13, NORTHGATE 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
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 470333
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/279 (West side)
10/01/72 Nos.11 & 13 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
(West side)
Nos 11 & 13 Row)
GV II
A store of 2 bays. Medieval undercrofts with structure above
dated 1900. By John Douglas, of Douglas and Minshull. For JF
Denson and Sons, with some later alterations. Cast-iron,
timber framing with plaster panels, grey-green slate roof.
EXTERIOR: undercroft and 2 storeys with rear wing partly of 3
storeys plus cellar and attic. The Row, 2 steps above pavement
level and probably below the medieval Row level, has a 2-bay
arcade of hollow posts, with fronts carved in late C16 manner,
concealing cast-iron or steel columns on red sandstone bases
which carry non-structural richly-carved segmental arches of
painted timber on carved brackets; the fascia to the bressumer
has a carved cornice. The second storey has full-width leaded
glazing above a row of shaped timber-framed panels; the
glazing to each bay has a 7-light bowed oriel flanked by
paired lights right and left, all with moulded mullions and
transom; richly-carved open-work skirts beneath oriels and
beneath the 2 jettied gables at their heads; consoles support
the gable-feet; each gable has 2 rows of ornate quatrefoil
panels; carved bargeboards. The taller rear wing has a single
slate-hung gable.
The rear is brick with plain slightly recessed wooden
casements.
INTERIOR: sandstone medieval undercrofts with a rectangular
pier central on No.11 and a former access either to the rear
or an upper storey; the first storey has moulded cast-iron
columns; the second storey is an open sales floor with a
full-width panelled plaster barrel-vault and rooflights in
canted rectangular wells.
Nos 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as `Saddler's Row' and
were previously listed as Row numbers.
(Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Northgate Street:
1989-).
Listing NGR: SJ4051766350
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National Grid Reference: SJ 40517 66350
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