4-10, STANLEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376407
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address:: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376407
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE

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:: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40151 66294

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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE 595-1/3/371 (North side) 28/07/55 Nos.4-10 (Even) (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY PLACE Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14 (consec))

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4 town houses, now offices, clinics, school classrooms and flats. c1782. No.4 is now offices and clinics; Nos 6,8 & 10 are classrooms and flats. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 4-storey rear wings which have roofs hipped upward behind the main ridge. Vertical brick joints between houses; each house has 2 sashes to each storey with painted stone sills and slightly cambered painted gauged brick window heads, similar cornices and west chimneys. The door towards east of each house has 2 flush panels beneath 4 fielded panels, a stone step and an overlight; that to No.4 having looped radial bars and that to No.6 plain radial bars; the doorcases have panelled pilasters and moulded pediments with dentils. Windows in the second and third storeys are inset from those in the first storey; the sashes were probably originally flush; in the first storey Nos 4 & 6 have flush 12-pane sashes, No.8 replaced 4-pane recessed sashes and No.10 replaced 2-pane recessed sashes; in the second storey No.4 has replaced 6-pane recessed sashes, No.6 flush 12-pane sashes, Nos 8 & 10 have one sash of 4 panes and one with bar removed from upper leaf; No.10 has a second storey sillband; in the third storey Nos 4 & 6 have 6-pane flush sashes and Nos 8 & 10 replaced 4-pane recessed sashes; an ornate rainwater head at east end of No.10. The rear of No.4 has a long rear wing, perhaps servants' quarters but now flats, with door of 4 fielded panels with 9-pane overlight adjoining main block, a slightly recessed 12-pane sash to the second storey, a 2-pane horizontally-sliding sash beneath a slightly recessed 8-pane stair sash, sashes of varied types to rooms in both storeys and an inserted door of 6 fielded panels in the gable end. The main block has a small lean-to with a tripartite sash to the first storey, a 16-pane flush sash under a slightly cambered gauged brick head to the second storey, an altered 6-pane flush sash to the third storey and a 12-pane flush sash to the attic.

No.6 has a flush sash east of centre to each storey; a 4-pane flush sash to the attic; a rear wing of 2 storeys with ridge parallel with the main block has a canted oriel added on the second storey. The rear of Nos 8 & 10 have been rebuilt later C20. INTERIOR of No.4: Altered 4-panel inner door now part-glazed, with side-lights in basket-arched opening with panelled pilasters; doors with 6 fielded panels to front and rear rooms and cellar; panels beneath window in one rear room; open-string dogleg stair has shaped brackets, 2 steps at half-landing, fluted newels, 2 plinthed stick balusters per step; curtail step with wreath to swept handrail. The second storey has 6-panel doors, fielded to principal rooms; the front room, now divided, has a cornice. The stair continues, at opposite side of house to third storey with plinthed square newels, modest shaped brackets, 2 plinthed stick balusters per step and a swept rail; doors of 4 fielded panels to third storey rooms; a panel beneath each front window; a simple cornice. The interiors of Nos 6, 8 & 10 could not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4014066296

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Legacy System number:: 470403
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.