Description

SJ4066SW
595-1/3/454
28/07/55

CHESTER CITY (IM)
WHITE FRIARS
(South side)

Nos.31 AND 33

II

GV

Pair of small town houses, No.33 now a dental surgery.
Probably late C18 on cellars of medieval origin. Brown brick
in English garden wall bond; grey slate roof, ridge parallel
with front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys of one bay to each house. Cellar vent,
perhaps formerly an opening, under timber lintel to each
house; doors of 6 fielded panels with plain overlights in
pilastered doorcases with simple friezes and cornices. Window
openings have no sills and cambered brick-on-end heads; 2
flush 12-pane sashes to first storey and east window of second
storey, the west sash having bars replaced by one bar in the
lower leaf; a flush 12-pane casement, east, and a
horizontally-sliding sash, west, to the third storey; painted
cornice; a chimney in front of ridge and one behind ridge on
each gable, the rear east chimney shortened. The rear has a
later long single-storey wing to each house. No.31 has a
casement of two 6-pane lights to the first and third storeys
and a flush 12-pane sash to the second storey. No.33 has a
casement of two 2-pane lights to the first and second storeys
and a 12-pane horizontally-sliding sash to the third storey.
INTERIOR: No.31 could not be inspected but is probably similar
to and less altered than No.33. No.33 has a cellar with
probably medieval sandstone front, east, west and rear walls
and later brick partitions, the floor surface not visible and
the ceiling structure replaced; sandstone stair with winders
through 180 degrees; 2-panel oak door, covered externally.
The first storey has the lower half, as a gate, of a door
formerly of 2 fielded panels to the front room; doors of 2
fielded panels to rear rooms and rear wing; 2 beams, probably
of oak; oak bressumer to former range recess. The
closed-string dogleg stair has covered steps, square and
oblong newels, a balustrade of Chinese or Japanese inspiration
with diagonal primary and secondary struts and a moulded rail.
The second storey has a door of 2 fielded panels to the rear
room and some plain beams. The third storey has probably
renewed 2-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SJ 40426 66072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657039

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Recommended Books

• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)