NUMBER 52 STREET

2, WHITE FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376102
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 52 STREET
Statutory Address:: 2, WHITE FRIARS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376102
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 52 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 2, WHITE FRIARS
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBER 52 STREET, 52, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 2, WHITE FRIARS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 52 STREET, 52, BRIDGE STREET AND ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40539 66112

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE BRIDGE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/54 (West side) 10/01/72 No.52 Street (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (West side) No.52) (Formerly Listed as: WHITEFRIARS No.2)

GV II

Includes: No.2 WHITE FRIARS. Undercroft and town house, now shop and office, on site of the service bay of the large medieval town house whose hall is in Nos 48 & 50 Bridge Street (qv); above undercroft level the service wing was demolished for a Georgian Town House, probably c1760; some C20 alterations. Brown brick in Flemish bond to Bridge Street and English garden wall bond to White Friars; grey slate roof at right-angle to Bridge Street, hipped to front. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. The shopfront to Bridge Street is late C20. The second storey, replacing the Row, has 2 nearly flush 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills, rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keystones; the third storey has 2 similar but taller sashes; the fourth storey has a central tripartite sash of 3;9;3 panes; painted stone cornice; low, lead-covered parapet. The long south face to White Friars has cast-iron vents and a small-paned window to the cellars; the first storey has a short return of the shopfront, the entrance to No.2 White Friars has 4 stone steps to door of 5 fielded panels, a looped radial-bar fanlight in a pedimented doorcase with fluted pilasters and a short internal stair to the stair-hall; nearly flush sashes with painted stone sills and cambered brick heads, one of 12 panes and three, tripartite, of 4;12;4 panes, one being taller; the third storey has a 12-pane sash, a tall sash to the stair with a 12-pane lower leaf and a 15-pane upper leaf, a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes and a 12-pane sash; the fourth storey has a 4-pane sash and two 9-pane sashes; a lead rainwater pipe and head; a stone-capped parapet; a large lateral chimney near the Bridge Street corner and a chimney set back near the rear. INTERIOR: the cellar to No.52 Bridge Street, rock-cut, is largely Georgian with Flemish bond brickwork, but has some

medieval stonework in rear wall; the basement of No.2 White Friars at former undercroft level is largely Georgian with brick barrel-vaults and brick-arched wine-bin; chamfered joists. No.2 White Friars occupies the whole of each storey at former Row level and above. The second (formerly Row) storey, front room has a rehung broad 5-panel door, panelled dado and embrasures, a Greek Doric fireplace and a plaster cornice; a C20 partition. The second room has a 5-panel door, simple panelled dado, blocked corner fire-breast and plaster cornice. The stair-hall has a round archway with panelled pilasters and moulded arch-arrises, to the front passage; the open-string stair has a narrow open well, open string, shaped brackets, fluted newels, 2 stick balusters per step, swept rail and probably altered dado with fluted pilasters. The room behind the stair has chimney-breast, rail but no panels to dado, fitted cupboard in chimney-corner and 2 chamfered oak beams. the next room has a painted chamfered beam. The third-storey front room has panelled window-embrasures and plaster cornice; the second room has a 5-panelled door, corner fireplace, simple dado panelling and plaster cornice; the landing has archway to front passage as in the second storey; the room behind the stair has 5-panel door, embrasures with panelled shutters, fireplace and plaster cornice; the 2 small back rooms have 5-panel doors. The fourth-storey front room has a 5-panel door and a chamfered softwood beam hacked as key for former plaster; the second room has a 5-panel door, corner fireplace and two 5-panel doors towards the stair; the room behind the stair has a 5-panel door and fitted cupboards in the chimney-corners; the next room has 5-panel doors to passage and back room; the 2 small back rooms have 5-panel doors; that to the north has a cast-iron Gothick window with inset 4-pane opening light. Some HL hinges and old latches. Parallel-sided glazing bars and features including oak beams suggest that part of the building may be early C18. (Chester Rows Research Project: Harris R: Archive, Bridge Street East: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SJ4053966112

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.