What are the exact critera for a CW-complex being a polytope?

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Everybody talks about the fact that polyhedra are special CW complexes, and some of the higher dimensional abstract polytopes are too, but nobody tells the exact criteria for a CW complex being a polytope (or I am clumsy a bit). What are these? Please give exact references for this (not only booknames, but pagenumbers too, if possible)!