38 Bridge Street, Chester

38 Bridge Street, Chester
38 Bridge Street
Location	Chester, Cheshire, England
Coordinates	53°11′21″N 2°53′29″W / 53.18925°N 2.89148°W / 53.18925; -2.89148
OS grid reference	SJ 405 662
Built	1897
Architect	Douglas & Fordham
Architectural style(s)	Black-and-white Revival
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	No.38 Street and Nos.36 & 38 Row
Designated	10 January 1972
Reference no.	1376082
Location in Cheshire

38 Bridge Street is a commercial property in Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade listed building.^[1] The building was constructed in 1897 and was designed by the local architects Douglas and Fordham.^[1][2] It is the only new building designed by Douglas to incorporate a section of the Chester Rows.^[2]

The building is in three storeys and is constructed in yellow sandstone and brick with stone dressings. The top storey is timber-framed. A modern shop front has been inserted into the lowest storey. The middle storey, which incorporates a section of the Rows, has a timber balustrade, behind which is the walkway, and then another shop front. The top storey is jettied. On the face overlooking Bridge Street are two six-light oriel windows under a gable, and a smaller three-light casement window to the right. On the south side, overlooking Pierpoint Lane, are small windows in both the middle and the upper storeys.^[1] Douglas' biographer Edward Hubbard considers it is one of his "most heavily decorated half-timber works".^[2]

As of 2012 row level of the building is occupied by designer womenswear brand The Editeur,^[3] and the street level by Italian restaurant chain Carluccio's.^[4]