Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/417 (North side)
11/01/90 Nos.58-66 (even) Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
Nos.58, 60, 62, 64 & 66)

GV II

Terrace of 5 town houses with undercrofts on site of the
timber-framed Mainwaring mansion, now a restaurant, shop and
offices and 3 flats. 1852. By Edward Hodkinson, probably as
architect and developer. Brown Flemish bond brick with stucco,
sandstone and blue brick dressings. The rear is of brown
brick, possibly partly older than the front. Grey slate roof
with main ridge parallel with the street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys including undercrofts which are rendered;
those to Nos 58-64 are altered with, respectively, a
small-pane double door with sidelights, two 15-pane fixed
lights and a 6-pane fixed light; that to No.66 is unaltered,
with boarded double loading doors in a segmental-arched
opening, a cast-iron area railing. The round-arched recessed
porches, paired to Nos 58 & 60 and Nos 62 & 64, have stucco
pilaster cases with moulded imposts and archivolts, 2 apron
steps and (from east to west) 5, 5, 6, 6 and 7 internal steps
of grey stone to doorways at former Row level; Nos 58 & 66
have bolection-moulded 6-panel doors, Nos 60 & 62 part-glazed
panelled doors and No.64 a plate-glass door with an inner
glazed 2-panel door. All windows except to undercrofts have
blue-brick segmental arches; those to Row-level and 4th storey
have moulded stone sills, the third storey a moulded sillband.
Nos 58-64 have replaced small-pane fixed lights at former Row
level, No.66 has original tripartite 4-pane sash; the 3rd and
4th storeys have 4 and 3 pane sashes in paired openings. Nos
58, 62 & 66 have a front gable to each house, Nos 60 & 64 a
gablet, all with stone kneelers, copings and finials. The rear
is in late Georgian style with recessed sashes of 12, 9 and 6
panes. The brick ridge chimneys have shaped stone caps.
INTERIORS: the undercrofts have brick barrel vaults, those to
Nos 58 & 64 being cut away at the front. Nos 58 & 66 have
newel stairs in a Jacobean manner; No.66 has 6-panel doors.
The upper storeys of Nos 60-64 were not inspected.
Included for the survival of undercrofts.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
104; Enumerators' Returns, National Census: Chester Holy
Trinity Parish: 1851-1861).

Listing NGR: SJ4036466249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657003

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)