16, WHITE FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376484
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 16, WHITE FRIARS
Statutory Address:: 16, WHITE FRIARS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376484
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 16, WHITE FRIARS
Statutory Address 1:: 16, 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:: 16, 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 40454 66097

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS 595-1/3/441 (North side) 28/07/55 No.16

GV II

House, then Chester Rural District Council Offices, now a municipal office. Late C18, altered internally and extended to rear. Flemish bond brown brick; the hipped grey roof, behind parapets, has 2 ridges parallel with the street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 windows. Painted stone plinth; 2 renewed steps to door of 1;2;2;1 panels, the lower 3 fielded and the upper 3 now glazed, and a 4-pane radial-bar fanlight in a Roman Doric stone doorcase with 3-quarter columns, frieze and pediment; 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to each side have lower leaves altered; painted stone sills; the windows to all storeys have gauged-brick flat arches. The second storey has a sillband and 5 recessed 12-pane sashes; the third storey has a sillband and 5 recessed 6-pane sashes; a lead rainwater pipe; full cornice of painted stone. The C18 rear is largely hidden by the C20 extension, but the large stair-sash with radial-bar fan in round-arched head is visible. INTERIOR: a stone-flagged brick, barrel-vaulted, cellar is probably all C18. The hall has skirting, replaced door in round archway with fluted corner pilasters, architraves and fanlight with glazing bars removed; plain frieze and modillion cornice; the stair hall has round archway to rear with fluted pilasters; the east and west front rooms have cornices; the west rear room has a cornice, the east room a recessed 16-pane sash largely concealed from without and a cornice; the former kitchen in the rear wing has basket-arched recesses for range and cupboards, now empty; the former back kitchen has a quarry-tile floor. The open-well stair has open string with shaped brackets, covered steps, square newels with urn-finials, renewed stick balusters and swept oak rail with wreath. The second storey landing has skirting and modillion cornice, the front passage has skirting and cornice; the west rooms were joined, with a new dado, to form the Rural District Council Chamber; the rear passage has a cornice. The stair to the third storey is like that below, but with probably original reeded balusters; most doors are replaced but architraves are retained. An internal boxed gutter runs from the back to the front of the building.

Listing NGR: SJ4045466097

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Legacy System number:: 470485
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.