Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS
595-1/3/438 (North side)
No.12
(east part) White Friars Cottage

GV II

Formerly known as: No.1 BOLLAND'S COURT.
Cottage, now part of office. Cellars probably medieval,
altered C18-C19; rebuilt above ground level 1884 in the manner
of TM Lockwood for Frederick Bullin; altered and extended 1972
by Coppack and Partners. Sandstone, Ruabon brick and timber
framing with plaster panels; red-brown clay tile roof gables
to White Friars.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic in roof.
The east front to Bollands Court has former doorway
stone-dressed with moulded arrises and Tudor-arched lintel
inscribed WHITE.FRIARS.COTTAGE on an incised scroll beneath an
ornate hood-mould, now converted to a window with recessed
brick panel below; the south bay has a cross-casement, one
light leaded above transom; the north bay has a 4-light
mullioned window leaded above transom; the windows stand proud
of the wall-face on shaped brackets. The small-framed upper
storey is slightly jettied: the central bay has 4 ornamented
panels and a mullioned 4-light leaded casement between raised
panels; the south bay has 2 rows of 3 panels with a curved
passing brace; the north bay has 3 panels beneath a 3-light
casement with side-panel; The central bay has a coved
eaves-jetty and a moulded cornice on 4 shaped brackets, above
which a gabled 3-light leaded dormer flanked by fluted
pilasters is set back on the roof-slope, with 2 curved struts,
moulded bargeboards on consoles and exposed rafter-ends. The
north extension of 1972, of no special interest, has a plaque
recording archaeological finds in 1874.
The face to White Friars is almost symmetrical. The first
storey has 2 mullioned and transomed 3-light casements with
leads in 4 upper lights and a fully leaded 1-light transomed
window, west. The small-framed second storey has curved arch
and tension braces and a mullioned and transomed 6-light
leaded oriel with a dentil-course to the sill on 3 shaped
brackets; the jettied gable has herringbone struts, moulded
bargeboards and a drop finial. All mullions and transoms are
ovolo; the lower ones have reeded fronts.
INTERIOR: the cellars, probably largely relined 1884, have
brick walls, but with some probably medieval squared sandstone
rubble masonry in the north wall, possibly re-set. The first

and second storeys are largely relined, but have some 6-panel
doors of 1884, with reeded margins to stiles, rails and
muntins.
As No.1 Bolland's Court, the cottage faced the Court until
converted to an office and joined with No.12 White Friars
(west part) (qv) in 1972.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council:
1/10/1884).

Listing NGR: SJ4048166106

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657029

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Recommended Books

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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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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas