Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE
595-1/3/366 (South side)
28/07/55 No.7
(Formerly Listed as:
STANLEY PLACE
Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14
(consec))

GV II

Town house, now offices. c1780. Flemish bond brown brick with
grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic in mansard. 3 stone steps,
west, to door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels, with
plain overlight, in a pedimented doorcase. 2 replaced 2-pane
recessed sashes to each storey have painted stone sills and
slightly cambered painted gauged-brick heads; two 12-pane
dormer sashes in mansard. 2 east chimneys shared with No.5
Stanley Place (qv) and one west chimney.
The rear, extended and altered, has a tall 42-pane stair
window in the east face of the rear wing and a 12-pane dormer
in the mansard.
INTERIOR: a part-glazed inner front door has 2 fielded lower
panels, sidelights and an overlight, probably late C19; door
of 6 fielded panels to front room and 5 fielded panels to rear
room; front room has large panels beneath dado rail, panelled
embrasure shutters, segmental full-width arch near back of
room and cornice. The open-string stair has fretted brackets,
tapered newels, plinthed stick balusters and a swept handrail
carved at its lower end as a hand, with the wrist emerging
from a sleeve, grasping the newel-head. The second storey
front room has a door of 5 fielded panels, large panels
beneath dado rail and a cornice; the rear room in main block
has door of 5 fielded panels, a modest Classical fire surround
and a cornice; basket arch on fluted pilasters to the
stairwell; the stair continues to the third and fourth storeys
which have no readily visible features of special interest.

Listing NGR: SJ4015566260

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656981

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