Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW GREY FRIARS
595-1/3/191 (South side)
10/01/72 Nos.1 AND 1A
(Formerly Listed as:
NICHOLAS STREET
No.28A)

GV II

Includes: No.28A NICHOLAS STREET.
3 town houses, then Territorial Army centre, now offices.
Probably early C19, altered internally. Stucco; grey slate
roof to Nos 1 Grey Friars and 28A Nicholas Street; flat roof
to No.1A Grey Friars.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to Nicholas Street, 2 storeys to Grey
Friars. The first storey to Nicholas Street has, north to
south, a tripartite 4; 12; 4-pane sash, 2 recessed 12-pane
sashes, a door of 6 fielded panels and a tripartite 4; 12; 4
pane sash; second storey sillband and sashes of the same types
and sequence as to the first storey; the third storey has 3
recessed 6-pane sashes; painted stone sills and heads painted
as if wedge lintels; cornice. The face to Grey Friars of No.1
has a door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels in a
doorcase with architrave, pilasters, frieze and cornice; a
recessed 12-pane sash to each side; sillband and three
recessed 12-pane sashes to second storey; gable with flush
ridge chimney. The rear has 3 recessed 12-pane sashes to each
storey, band and parapet gable.
No.1A Grey Friars is recessed; some features are probably
replaced, but facsimile with those of No.1 Grey Friars: 4
recessed 12-pane sashes and a door of 6 fielded panels to the
lower storey; 3 recessed 12-pane sashes, plus a small 4-pane
sash in each wing, to the upper storey; sillband, band to base
of parapet and coping.
The west end is plain and the south face modernised.
INTERIOR: No.1 Grey Friars has cellars, part with brick barrel
vault, wine bins and stone steps; cellar walls of rubble
sandstone and brick. Apart from the cellars, the interiors are
altered.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4030266071

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656871

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