Listed Building: WHITE FRIARS COTTAGE (EAST PART) (1376479)

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