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SOUGHTON HOUSE

3, GREY FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376253
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: SOUGHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 3, GREY FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376253
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: SOUGHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 3, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address 2:: SOUGHTON HOUSE, 2, NICHOLAS STREET MEWS

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:: 3, GREY FRIARS
Statutory Address:: SOUGHTON HOUSE, 2, NICHOLAS STREET MEWS

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:: SJ4025266077

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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW GREY FRIARS 595-1/3/190 (North side) 10/01/72 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: NICHOLAS STREET MEWS Soughton House) (Formerly Listed as: GREYFRIARS No.3)

GV II

Includes: No.2 Soughton House NICHOLAS STREET MEWS. 2 town houses, now offices and when inspected in May 1990 one unoccupied house. Between 1745 and 1789 and stated to be c1780 but with features which look mid C18; some alterations. Brown brick in Flemish bond to west and east, but irregular bond to south; grey slate roof with 2 ridges at right angles to Grey Friars. EXTERIOR: cellar and 3 storeys. No.3, at right angles to Grey Friars, faces west; Soughton House, to Nicholas Street Mews, faces east. Painted stone sills, some replaced; most windows to west and south have cambered brick heads; those to Nicholas Street Mews are plastered as wedge lintels. No.3 Grey Friars has a slightly projecting porch with door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels and a simple radial-bar fanlight in a pedimented case abutting, north, a 3-storey canted brick bay containing a nearly flush 16-pane sash to front and a 12-pane recessed sash in the north face to the first storey, a recessed 12-pane sash to each face in the second storey and a nearly flush 6-pane sash to each face in the third storey; parapet with a plain stone coping. The first storey of the west face of Soughton House is not fully visible; the second storey has 2 nearly flush 12-pane sashes and the third storey a pair of flush 6-pane sashes under a broad cambered head. The south face has irregular fenestration: three 12-pane sashes towards east end of first storey, one recessed and 2 nearly flush; a tall 18-pane stair sash and 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, one a horned replacement, to the second storey; 2 small inserted casements to the third storey. The east face has first and second storey sillbands; 2 bricked-up sash openings, one recessed 12-pane sash and one recessed tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes to the first storey; 2 recessed 12-pane sashes and one tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes to the second storey; 2 recessed 6-pane sashes and a similar pair of sashes under a long lintel to the third

storey; moulded cornice. A 1-storey north wing has a painted stone plinth meeting street level, south; a door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels and a plain radial-bar fanlight in a pedimented doorcase, a sillband and a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes. INTERIOR: No.3 Grey Friars has a cellar, not inspected, first storey with 2 doors of 6 fielded panels and 3 doors of 3 fielded panels; the dogleg stair of 4 flights has open string, shaped brackets, tapered octagonal newels, stick balusters and swept rail, all painted; the second storey has 3 doors of 3 fielded panels; cornices to the west room and the 3-panelled ceiling of the middle room; the third storey has one door of 2 fielded panels and 2 probably replaced doors of 6 fielded panels. The interior of Soughton House could not be inspected. (De Lavaux A: Plan of the City and Castle of Chester: Chester: 1745-; Weston Samuel (Surveyor): Survey of the Ancient and Loyal City of Chester: Chester: 1789-).

Listing NGR: SJ4025266077

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Legacy System number:: 470247
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.