Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE
595-1/3/373 (North side)
28/07/55 No.14
City Walls Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
STANLEY PLACE
Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14
(consec))

GV II

Town house, now hotel, at north-west corner of Stanley Place,
with entrance front to City Walls Road. c1780. Flemish bond
brown brick with grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Stooled painted stone sills, slightly
cambered painted gauged brick heads and painted stone cornice
to both fronts. The face to Stanley Place has 2 replaced
recessed sashes per storey, of 2 panes to first and second
storeys and 6 panes to third storey. The face to City Walls
Road has 2 repaired stone steps to replaced double doors with
3-pane batwing sidelights in a pedimented doorcase with fluted
pilasters; the full-height pedimented entrance bay projects,
matching that of No.13 south of Stanley Place. The first
storey has a replaced recessed sash of 2 panes to each side of
entrance and three 12-pane sashes further north; the second
storey has a 12-pane sash above the door, a replaced 2-pane
sash to each side and three 12-pane sashes further north; six
6-pane sashes to third storey; the rear gable-end has a flush
12-pane sash to the second storey and one of 6-panes to the
third storey; original rainwater head and upper pipe and
brackets; a flat-roofed single storey north wing has 2
recessed 12-pane sash and cast-iron key-pattern cresting on a
plain stone coping.
INTERIOR: most features are removed or covered; open-well
stair of 6 flights has open string with shaped brackets,
diminishing newels, 2 stick balusters per step and swept
handrail terminating in a wreath.

Listing NGR: SJ4012166303

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656985

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)