Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS
595-1/3/439 (North side)
10/01/72 No.12
(west part)
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITEFRIARS
No.12)

GV II

Town house, now part of office. Cellars partly medieval;
rebuilt above ground level c1800. Flemish bond brown brick;
grey slate roof, ridge parallel with street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 windows. Twice weathered plinth of
painted stone; recess for former boot-scraper; 2 yellow
sandstone steps to door of 6 fielded panels with overlight of
9 margined panes in probably replaced timber case with
unmoulded pediment on consoles; shallow bow window, east, has
tripartite sash now of 2;2;2 panes, the central sash broader
than the sidelights, in timber case with curved frieze and
cornice. The second storey has 2 recessed sashes, now of 2
panes, with painted stone sillband and wedge lintels; the
third storey has 2 recessed 9-pane sashes with painted stone
sillband and wedge lintels; full lead-dressed cornice of
painted stone; flush gable chimneys.
INTERIOR: the outer walls of the cellars are of tooled coursed
rubble sandstone with some probably C18 brickwork above; the
internal walls are largely C18 brick; sandstone steps; a
slightly S-curved north-south passage has brick barrel-vault;
a sandstone cross-wall in the east cellar; barrel-vaulted
chimney-stacks and wine-bins of brick; flagged floor; 2
roughly-chamfered oak beams approx 0.25 x 0.25m, with mortices
for broad joists, but the floor above is now raised.
The first storey has inner door to hall altered; the east
front room has a wood fireplace, now blocked with curious
knobbly surfaces to pilasters and frieze, panelled and
shuttered embrasure to the bow window, plaster cornice. The
rear rooms have altered doors and some cornices. The panelled
archway to stair hall has simple reeded corner pilasters. The
open-well 7-flight stair has open string, shaped brackets,
covered steps, tapered octagonal newels, stick balusters and
mahogany swept rail. The second storey has a pilastered basket
archway from landing to rear, front room with 5-panel door,
simple fireplace and cornice and back room with 6-panel door.
The third storey has no visible features of special interest;
the seventh flight of the stair leads to a former doorway, now

blocked, to the third storey of the taller next building,
No.14 (qv).
For the east wing of this office, formerly No.1 Bollands
Court, see No.12 White Friars (east part).

Listing NGR: SJ4047666104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657030

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)