The Sedan House is at 13 and 13B Stanley Place,
Chester
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Cheshire
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, England. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II*
listed building.
The house is sited on the corner of Stanley Place and City Walls Road. It takes its name from the porch on City Walls Road that was used for those being carried in a
sedan to enter the house.
History
Stanley Place, including the Sedan House, was built in about 1780 on land formerly occupied by the
Franciscan and
Dominican friaries
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. Stanley Place remains as one of Chester's few unaltered
Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
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streets.
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Architecture
Sedan House is constructed in brown brick on a painted stone plinth, with a grey slate
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roof. It has three storeys. The windows are sashes
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.[ Extending from the house on the side of City Walls Road is a single-storey porch. This has two doors, one on the north side and one on the south. On the west side is a nine-pane window. Leading up from the north side is a single stone step, with two steps to the south.][ It is thought that this is the only surviving porch of this type in the northwest of England.][
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See also
* Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester
References
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Houses completed in 1780
Houses in Chester
Grade II* listed buildings in Chester
Grade II* listed houses
Georgian architecture in Cheshire