Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FRODSHAM STREET
1932-1/6/124 (East side)
10/01/72 No.64
Oddfellows Arms Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
FRODSHAM STREET
No.62
Oddfellows Arms)

II

Public house. Dated 1770, with C19 and C20 alterations. Brown
Flemish bond brick; grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, double-fronted, with later 2-storey 1-bay
wing, right. 5-panel door with 3-pane overlight in simple
timber pilaster case; flush sashes with thick glazing-bars,
painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with
projecting false keystones: a 12-pane sash to each side of
door and one in 2-storey wing, all with square panes, to
ground floor; similar sashes to first floor, but narrower with
"golden section" panes; two shorter 6-pane sashes to second
floor. Datestone inscribed "PH:1770"; moulded cornice;
7-course brick parapet with simple painted stone coping; flush
gable chimney, left; longitudinal chimney behind the ridge,
right.
The north side to Victoria Place has a panelled apron below a
window of 3 round-headed fixed lights, flanked by 2 blocked
doorways, all with fluted pilasters. The first floor has 2
sashes, now of 4 panes, flanking a stone-framed rectangular
panel painted "ODDFELLOWS ARMS". Pair of sashes, now 4-pane,
to second floor. Stone-framed Palladian-window-shaped panel to
base of gable. Unbroken brick joint to rear wing with a 4-pane
sash to ground and first floors.
INTERIOR: partly "opened up" indicates former double-fronted
plan; the right rooms, front and back, have altered
back-to-back inglenooks.

Listing NGR: SJ4073866581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656550

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living