SEDAN HOUSE

SEDAN HOUSE, 13 AND 13B, STANLEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376413
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: SEDAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SEDAN HOUSE, 13 AND 13B, STANLEY PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376413
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: SEDAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SEDAN HOUSE, 13 AND 13B, 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:: SEDAN HOUSE, 13 AND 13B, STANLEY PLACE

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ4013366258

Details

SJ4066SW 595-1/3/369 28/07/55

CHESTER CITY (IM) STANLEY PLACE (South side) Nos.13 AND 13B Sedan House (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY PLACE Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14 (consec))

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Town house, now barristers' chambers. c1780. Flemish Bond brown brick with grey slate roof hipped to corner with City Walls Road. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; painted stone plinth. The face to Stanley Place has 2 recessed sashes to each storey, now of 4 panes to first storey, 12 panes to second storey and 6 panes to third storey; painted stone sills and slightly cambered painted gauged brick heads; small cornice; 2 shared chimneys east, one on roof slope and one at rear. The face to City Walls Road has a raised stone pavement with a weathered square sandstone post lettered B... on its south face. The full-height pedimented central bay has an added projecting sedan-chair porch, said to be the only example in north-west England, with a 9-pane sash in a pedimented aedicule to front, a cornice and 4-course stone-capped parapet and a sedan-chair door of 4-fielded panels above 2 flush panels in each return face; stone steps, one to the north door, 2 to the south: the Chair-men entered and departed by opposite doors, their passenger embarking or alighting under cover at the house door between. The first storey has a 12-pane recessed sash in the north wing, a door of 6 fielded panels to No.13B in a former window opening using the 6-pane upper sash leaf as an overlight and 2 recessed 12-panes sashes to the north wing, one of 16 panes to the central bay, a blocked sash and 2 now of 4 panes to the south wing. The third storey has 6-pane sashes, one blocked, in the north wing, one in the centre bay and 3, one blocked, in the south wing; a massive chimney against the rear gable-end; rainwater head and pipe. INTERIOR: door from the sedan porch is of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels, in a basket archway under the stair; the west room to Stanley Place has two 6-panel doors, panelled shutters in one embrasure and a simple cornice; the east room to Stanley Place has large panels beneath the dado rail, now partly covered, and a damaged cornice; the south-east room has

a 6-panel door and a simple cornice; details are largely replaced in all storeys of the south wing. The open-string open-well stair has shaped brackets, curtail step, plinthed stick balusters and swept rail with wreath. The secondary stair, in No.13B, has diminishing and tapered newels and stick balusters; the strings are enclosed. The second storey west room facing Stanley Place has one panelled embrasure with shutters; archway with pilasters from the stair-well to the east room facing Stanley Place which has a panelled embrasure with shutters; the south-east room has a 6-panel door and a panelled embrasure with shutters. The grade relates to the rare survival of a sedan-chair porch.

Listing NGR: SJ 40133 66258

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Legacy System number:: 470409
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.