2, STANLEY STREET, 1, STANLEY PLACE

1, STANLEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376404
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 2, STANLEY STREET, 1, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address:: 1, STANLEY PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376404
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 2, STANLEY STREET, 1, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 1, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: 2, STANLEY STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address:: 2, STANLEY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40176 66264

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE 595-1/3/363 (South side) 28/07/55 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY PLACE Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14 (consec)) (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY STREET Nos.2 AND 3)

GV II*

Includes: No.2 STANLEY STREET. 2 town houses, now an office. c1780. Stone and Flemish bond red-brown brick with grey slate roof, hipped to street corner. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with symmetrical fronts, of 5 windows to Stanley Place and 3 windows to Stanley Street, east. Painted stone plinth, quoins and first storey to Stanley Place are of painted rusticated stone; fluted Classical doorcase; sillband; moulded architraves to windows; fluted frieze. 3 repaired stone steps to door with 2 flush lower panels, 2 fielded middle panels and a fielded top panel; the overlight is expressed as a fanlight with cusped radial bars; 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to each side. The second storey has a sillband, a central 12-pane sash in a fluted Classical case and 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to each side; the third storey has 5 recessed 9-pane sashes with painted stone sills; wedge lintels to second and third storeys have false double keystones; the cornice frieze to the parapet has recessed quatrefoils between triple flutes; a chimney against the gable of No.3 Stanley Place (qv). The face to Stanley Street has a slightly projecting full-height central bay with a door of 5 panels, now glazed, in a modest case; a blocked window to north and a replaced 4-pane sash to south. The second storey has 2 recessed 12-pane sashes and one replaced with 4 panes. 3 recessed 9-pane sashes to the third storey; moulded parapet cornice returned at rear end. The rear, of irregular form, has a 16-pane recessed sash and a 12-pane flush sash to the second storey and two 9-pane flush sashes to the third storey. INTERIOR: the west front room has a door of 5 fielded panels, a fireplace with dentil mantel on ornately carved pilasters, panelled and shuttered window embrasures, a cornice and an arched rear recess; a 5-panel door to the rear west room; 5-panel doors to the second storey, 4-panel doors to the third

storey. 2 open-string dogleg stairs; that to the west has shaped brackets, square newels, plinthed stick balusters, swept handrail and large-panelled dado; the steps and balusters in the third storey are covered. The south-east stair has shaped brackets, plain newels, plinthed balusters and swept handrail; the steps are covered. Principal rooms have cornices. Nos 1-13 (odd) Stanley Place (qv) form a terrace, stepped down to slope of the elongated square; all built within 2-3 years. The houses, apart from No.1 which is larger and with a more opulent facade, are of similar expression.

Listing NGR: SJ4017666264

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Legacy System number:: 470400
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.