Listed Building: 4-10, STANLEY PLACE (1376407)

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)) GV II 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