Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS
595-1/3/456 (South side)
28/07/55 Nos.37 AND 39

GV II

Pair of town houses now, with No.41 (qv) part of an office.
c1800 altered, on cellars of medieval origin. Pale brown brick
in Flemish bond to front; grey slate roof, ridge parallel with
the street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each house probably originally of 2
windows. Painted stone plinth with boot-scraper recess; each
house has door of 2 flush panels and 3 fielded panels, the top
panel replaced in No.39; plain overlights, that to No.39 of 3
panes; simple doorcases with pediments on pilasters. The
windows have painted stone sills and, where original, gauged
brick heads. Replaced or repaired tripartite sashes, one
recessed and the other flush, to first storey have glazing
bars removed. 2 cast-iron plates inscribed SBP 1877 and SMns P
1877 (St Bridget's Parish and St Martin's Parish). The second
storey has an inserted 4-pane horned sash above the door, a
tripartite sash in place of a former Venetian window to No.37
and a Venetian window with bars removed except in fan to
No.39. No.37 has a probably inserted horned 4-pane sash to the
third storey and each house has a replaced tripartite horned
sash of 3;9;3 panes; stone coping; gable panes, chimneys.
INTERIOR: No.37 has cellar with concrete floor, medieval
sandstone front, east and in part back wall, brick arched wine
bins, a damaged stone stair and oak beams, some reused. The
first storey front room has embrasure sub-panels; the
open-string dogleg stair has shaped brackets, square newel
chamfered towards top, 2 stick balusters per step and swept
rail. The second storey front room has sub-panels and
architrave to tripartite sash and a cornice. The third storey
has no visible features of special interest.
No.39 has cellar with front wall, longitudinal wall and back
wall partly of medieval coursed rubble sandstone, a stone
stair and oak beams including one of medieval type, broad and
shallow with birdsmouthed double chamfers. The hall has a
simple pilastered basket arch; the front room has a door of 5
fielded panels in architrave, sub-panels and panelled shutters
to tripartite sash, frieze and cornice. The open-string dogleg
stair has shaped brackets, 2 stick balusters per step and a
swept rail. The second storey front room has doorway
architraves, a vigorously expressed fireplace with
reversed-taper pedestal pilasters and a frieze and cornice.

The stick balusters of the stair to the third storey are
tapered; the rooms have no visible features of special
interest.

Listing NGR: SJ4041266062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657041

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