BANK HOUSE

BANK HOUSE, 18, WHITE FRIARS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376485
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BANK HOUSE, 18, WHITE 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:: 1376485
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BANK HOUSE, 18, 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:: BANK HOUSE, 18, 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 40433 66113

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS 595-1/3/442 (North side) 28/07/55 No.18 Bank House

GV II

Detached town house, now surgeries. Probably largely mid C18, altered, with a little possibly medieval stonework. Brown brick in irregular bond; grey slate roof, largely concealed. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, of 2 or more builds. The front to White Friars has a staggered vertical joint near the centre, and irregular fenestration. Door of 2 flush panels, 2 fielded panels and 2 panels now glazed in a timber case with roses in corners of frieze; a later lattice porch of wood; 3 nearly flush horned sashes with painted stone sills just above ground level and slightly cambered gauged brick arches west of door, one of 12 panes and 2 now 4 panes; a sash of 16-panes east of the door. The west part of the second storey has 3 recessed 12-pane sashes; the east part has a tall 10 x 3 pane stair window and a flush 12-pane sash. The third storey has 2 recessed 16-pane sashes, west, and a flush 12-pane sash east. Parapet with plain stone coping; gable chimneys. The east side has a door now part-glazed, a replaced second storey window and a projecting stack. The south 2m of the east face are slightly recessed. The north face has 3 gables; the intersections suggest that the central gable was built first, probably the north wing of an L-shaped house whose west wing would have coincided with the central portion of the present west front; note the chimney at the internal corner of the 2 suggested wings, and a portion of probably medieval stonework near the centre of the first storey, north. The first storey has a sandstone plinth, an altered door in a lattice porch similar to that to front and miscellaneous fenestration; the second storey has a flush tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes in east wing, a central nearly flush 12-pane sash and a similar sash, set towards the centre, in the west wing; the third storey has a central 16-pane flush sash in each of the 3 gable-ends. The north face may at one period have formed an almost symmetrical front to the house. INTERIOR: the surgeries could not be inspected. The south-west, now waiting room, has panelled embrasures, 6-panel doors with carved lions-heads at corners of architraves and a panelled plaster ceiling, formerly to more than one room. The former kitchen, northeast, has a blocked range-opening and a former alcove. The open-well newel stair, evidently C18, has

balustrade covered. NOTE: c.f. the stonework in the north face of Bank House with the sandstone portion of its garden wall to No.16 White Friars (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ4043366113

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Legacy System number:: 470486
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.