Listed Building: 37 AND 39, WHITE FRIARS (1376491)

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