Excellent, Emma, you've caught the look and the feel of the Rows perfectly.
We once had a long weekend on Chester staying at a hotel just inside the city walls near one of the gates, We visited the Rows, of course, and the thing I most remember about them apart from the overall impression was the noise from people talking and the sound of people walking on the wooden planks. The buildings seemed to magnify any sounds, and the noise of voices reminded me of the noise of flocks of starlings coming in to roost at sunset.