83 Welsh Row is a

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town house in

Nantwich Nantwich ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture. ...

, Cheshire, England, dating from the late 18th century, located on the south side of Welsh Row (at ). It is currently used as offices. It is listed at

grade II* In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

; in the listing,

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describes it as "a good tall late C18 house", featuring a "good doorway". Number 83 is one of many Georgian buildings on Welsh Row, which

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

calls "the best street of Nantwich". Townwell House, also listed at grade II*, stands on the opposite side at number 52.

Description

The town house is a plain building in red brick, with five bays and five storeys topped by a stone cornice.Pevsner N, Hubbard E. ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire'', p. 289 (Penguin Books; 1971) () The central bay projects slightly and is capped by a

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedim ...

. The two windows of the central bay have a stone surround with

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; the other windows have stone sills. The front entrance is reached by three stone steps to a small platform which has railings dating from the late 19th century. The doorcase features paired unfluted Roman Doric columns, and is topped by a fanlight and pediment. One of the rooms on the interior contains 17th-century panelling, which was originally from another local house.

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