Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE
595-1/3/368 (South side)
28/07/55 No.11
(Formerly Listed as:
STANLEY PLACE
Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14
(consec))

GV II

Town house, now with No.9 Stanley Place (qv) a language
school. c1780. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus mansard attic. Painted stone plinth;
2 damaged stone steps, west, to door of 4 fielded panels above
2 flush panels with a plain replaced overlight in a replaced
timber doorcase; 2 replaced 4-pane recessed sashes to first
and third storeys, 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to second storey;
painted stone sills and slightly recessed painted gauged-brick
heads; 4-pane sashes in 2 dormers with pilasters and pediments
in mansard; 2 shared west chimneys.
The rear of the main block has an altered door with overlight,
a 4-pane sash to second storey and 2 to third storey; two
12-pane dormer sashes in mansard. A long 2-storey hip-roofed
rear wing, with lower storey altered, has sashes of 6, 12, and
16 panes in west face of upper storey.
INTERIOR: hall has looped radial-bar fanlight to stairwell,
simple radial-bar fanlight to rear lobby and 4-panel doors to
rear rooms. The front room has 6-panel door, panelled
embrasures and shutters and cornice with patterned frieze. The
dogleg stair to second storey is rebuilt in keeping, to give
access to No.9 Stanley Place (qv). The front second storey
room has door of 5 fielded panels, panelled embrasures and
cornice with fluted frieze; door of 6 fielded panels to back
room. Original open-string open-well stair to third and attic
storeys has shaped brackets, stick balusters, diminishing
newels interrupting swept handrail; 4-panel doors in third
storey and attic.

Listing NGR: SJ4014266254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656983

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)