Bishop Lloyd's House
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Bishop Lloyd's House in 2009
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| Location | 41 Watergate Street, and 51/53 Watergate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°11′24″N 2°53′36″W / 53.1899°N 2.8934°WCoordinates: 53°11′24″N 2°53′36″W / 53.1899°N 2.8934°W |
| OS grid reference | SJ 404 662 |
| Built | 13th–14th century |
| Rebuilt | 17th century |
| Restored | 1890s, 1973–77 |
| Restored by | Thomas Lockwood (1890s) |
| Governing body | Chester Civic Trust |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Official name: No.41 Street and Nos.51 & 53 Row (Bishop Lloyd's House) | |
| Designated | 28 August 1955 |
 Location within Cheshire
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Bishop Lloyd's House (or Bishop Lloyd's Palace) is at 41 Watergate Street, and 51/53 Watergate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be "perhaps the best" house in Chester.
The house is built on two stone medieval undercrofts with timber framing above. Its first floor incorporates a section of the Chester Rows. The house is now used as shops and meeting rooms and it includes the headquarters of Chester Civic Trust.
The house originated as two town houses which were built on medieval undercrofts. It was rebuilt during the 17th century when the two buildings were converted into one. The rebuilt house broke with the medieval fashion of having the main residential accommodation in a great hall at the row level; instead the principal living accommodation was in two "elegant chambers" in the floor above the row. The house has been associated with George Lloyd, who was Bishop of Chester from 1605 to 1615. In the early 18th century the east (left) house bore a panel inscribed "EDGAR'S ACADEMY". By the 19th century it had become run down, the carvings on its frontage had been covered with plaster, the house had been split into tenements, and it was becoming derelict. In the 1890s the house was heavily restored by Thomas Lockwood. He re-fronted the east house to more closely match the west house and added a flight of steps from the street to the level of the row on the east side. He also re-positioned the posts holding the structure above the row and replaced the 18th-century sash windows with mullioned windows. A further restoration was carried out between 1973 and 1977.
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