Whitefriars Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. A C14 Museum.

Whitefriars Museum

WRENN ID: keen-rampart-hyssop
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Coventry
Country: England
Date first listed: 5 February 1955
Type: Museum
Source: Historic England listing

Description

5105

SP 3378 NE 1/29

SP 3478 NW 8/29

GULSON ROAD

Whitefriars Museum

(Formerly listed as Coventry Union Workhouse (Salvation Army Hostel))

5.2.55

Circa 1342, date of foundation of Carmelite Priory, dissolved 1538. Private dwelling house of Hales family to 1717. Converted to workhouse for the poor 1804.

Range on east side of former cloister, 46 metres long. Ashlar, two storeys, tiled roof. Buttresses with offsets. Ground floor pointed arched windows to former cloister with ribbed cross vaults. First floor former friars' dormitory has square headed mullioned lattice casement windows, canted oriel bay window.

Bombed 1940, restored 1968-69.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 October 2019.

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