28A, NICHOLAS STREET, 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS

1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376252
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: 28A, NICHOLAS STREET, 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS

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Date:: 2001-06-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376252
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 28A, NICHOLAS STREET, 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address 2:: 28A, NICHOLAS STREET

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:: 1 AND 1A, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address:: 28A, NICHOLAS STREET

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:: SJ4030266071

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW GREY FRIARS 595-1/3/191 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.1 AND 1A (Formerly Listed as: NICHOLAS STREET No.28A)

GV II

Includes: No.28A NICHOLAS STREET. 3 town houses, then Territorial Army centre, now offices. Probably early C19, altered internally. Stucco; grey slate roof to Nos 1 Grey Friars and 28A Nicholas Street; flat roof to No.1A Grey Friars. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to Nicholas Street, 2 storeys to Grey Friars. The first storey to Nicholas Street has, north to south, a tripartite 4; 12; 4-pane sash, 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, a door of 6 fielded panels and a tripartite 4; 12; 4 pane sash; second storey sillband and sashes of the same types and sequence as to the first storey; the third storey has 3 recessed 6-pane sashes; painted stone sills and heads painted as if wedge lintels; cornice. The face to Grey Friars of No.1 has a door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels in a doorcase with architrave, pilasters, frieze and cornice; a recessed 12-pane sash to each side; sillband and three recessed 12-pane sashes to second storey; gable with flush ridge chimney. The rear has 3 recessed 12-pane sashes to each storey, band and parapet gable. No.1A Grey Friars is recessed; some features are probably replaced, but facsimile with those of No.1 Grey Friars: 4 recessed 12-pane sashes and a door of 6 fielded panels to the lower storey; 3 recessed 12-pane sashes, plus a small 4-pane sash in each wing, to the upper storey; sillband, band to base of parapet and coping. The west end is plain and the south face modernised. INTERIOR: No.1 Grey Friars has cellars, part with brick barrel vault, wine bins and stone steps; cellar walls of rubble sandstone and brick. Apart from the cellars, the interiors are altered. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4030266071

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Legacy System number:: 470246
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.