WHITE FRIARS HOUSE

WHITE FRIARS HOUSE, 14, WHITE FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376482
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: WHITE FRIARS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WHITE FRIARS HOUSE, 14, WHITE FRIARS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376482
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: WHITE FRIARS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WHITE FRIARS HOUSE, 14, WHITE FRIARS

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:: WHITE FRIARS HOUSE, 14, WHITE FRIARS

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 40462 66106

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS 595-1/3/440 (North side) 10/01/72 No.14 White Friars House

GV II

Town house, now surgeries. Cellars probably partly medieval; rebuilding above ground level dated 1796; altered internally and to rear. Painted stone and brown Flemish bond brick with grey slate roof, ridge parallel with street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 windows. Painted stone plinth with cellar chute, formerly 2; 3 courses of banded rustication; apron step and 2 steps in recessed porch to door of 6 fielded panels, the top pair now glazed, with overlight of 9 margined panes; a painted stone architrave within a substantial timber case with plinths and volutes to panelled pilasters with recessed roses in capitals and carved brackets to a dentilled segmental pediment; recessed sashes; 2 west of the entrance and one east of it, now of 4 panes, in painted ashlar. Above the second storey sillband the face is brick, with 4 recessed sashes per storey, those to the third storey having short upper leaves; wedge lintels; a third storey sillband; a modillion cornice; gable chimneys. The second storey balcony is removed, but its 9 iron brackets in the form of serpents or dragons are in place. The building is 50m from front to back. The rear wing is much altered, but has brickwork of C18 character and some flush sashes; a timber gutter near the south end of the rear wing is dated 1796. INTERIOR: the cellars have probably medieval tooled squared sandstone rubble outer walls to the south, the southern 5m of the west wall and the lower courses of the east and north walls; the cellars are approx 15m front to back; a cupboard-type recess in the south wall; 3 stone winder-steps against the north wall to a now blocked access. Where not of sandstone the cellar walls are brick; probably C18, with barrel-vaulted recesses built against the sides; brick wine-bins; sandstone steps from hall. The first storey has floors of late C18 coloured patterned tiles; the 2 front rooms are thrown into one; a simple pilastered fireplace, east, and a replaced fireplace, west; the passage to the rear wing has a chamfered beam, now painted, along a partly-recessed portion of its east, now party wall, perhaps pre C18. The open-well stone stair has shaped soffit and nosings, curtail step, shaped cast-iron balusters and swept rail with wreath.

The third and fourth storey rooms could not be inspected, but have some panelling.

Listing NGR: SJ4046266106

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Legacy System number:: 470483
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.