Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WHITE FRIARS
595-1/3/437 (North side)
No.10
White Friars Lodge

GV II

Town house, now offices. Probably medieval and C17-C18 core,
refaced, partly rebuilt and extended 1885 by TM Lockwood. Red
sandstone, brown brick, Ruabon brick and terracotta; grey
slate roof, gables to south, west and north, with terracotta
ridges.
EXTERIOR: cellars, 2 full storeys and attic; 3 windows to
south, plus hip-roofed one-storey wing to west with long side
to Bollands Court.
The front to White Friars has 2 cross-windows under segmental
gauged brick arches in the west wing; a door of 6 panels
beneath 3 shaped leaded panes in a basket-arched opening with
moulded brick jambs rising from corbels at the sill
stringcourse; a terracotta cartouche in panel above door is
inscribed WHITE.FRIARS.LODGE; 2 basket-arched mullioned and
transomed casements have terracotta keystones supporting a
second-storey stringcourse. Panels 4-courses high beneath a
one-course moulded sillband; a central mullioned and transomed
3-light basket-arched window flanked by panels with terracotta
pilasters and a basket-arched 2-light window east and west;
terracotta keystones; a one-course moulded string; a row of 6
panels; a 2-course moulded sillband; a basket-arched 3-light
leaded attic casement; plain brick pilasters and panels, the
second and fourth panels containing small leaded fixed lights;
2 blank basket-arches above the window and panels support an
aedicule inscribed 18.FB.85, probably for Frederick Bullin, in
the gable apex; the verge has moulded dentils.
The west face has a cross-casement, 2 small partly-leaded
casements and a 3-light mullioned and transomed casement with
an ornate cast-iron grille over the central lower light in the
side of the one-storey wing. The second storey behind has a
2-pane casement, a moulded eaves-band, pilasters and 2 small
leaded lights in gable; a shaped Ruabon brick chimney. Much of
the rear gable end is of irregular bond brown brick, probably
C18; three altered cross-casements are visible and, west, an
inserted 2-pane casement with leaded glazing, tinted and
patterned; a large Ruabon brick chimney, east; a modern
rendered rear extension.
The ornately decorated Ruabon brick and terracotta front is
typical of TM Lockwood's work; unusual for him is the

retention of parts of the earlier building.
INTERIOR: the squared rubble sandstone cellar walls suggest
medieval origin; a cambered roughly chamfered cross-beam
approx 0.25m square looks C17 or possibly earlier. The first
storey has an inner front door with patterned leaded glazing,
a corner fireplace in the stair hall, possibly C18, altered,
with Ionic pilasters. The stair is 1885, with closed string,
turned newels, 3 stout barleysugar balusters per 2 steps and a
screen of turned balusters to the outer side of the stair. The
front east room has a now painted tongue-stopped chamfered
beam, probably C17; the second storey rear room has a now
painted beam with simply stopped chamfers, probably C17. A
Greek Revival fireplace with cartouche in frieze beneath the
mantel.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council:
3/12/1884).

Listing NGR: SJ4049166104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657028

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