4-10, Stanley Place

Four town houses, now offices, clinics, school classrooms and flats, dating to around 1782. Number 4 is used as offices and clinics; numbers 6, 8 and 10 contain classrooms and flats.

The buildings are constructed in Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roofs. They comprise three storeys with four-storey rear wings, the roofs of which are hipped upward behind the main ridge. Vertical brick joints separate each house from its neighbours.

Each house has two sash windows to each storey, with painted stone sills and slightly cambered painted gauged brick window heads. Similar cornices run along each façade. The doors, positioned toward the east end of each house, feature two flush panels beneath four fielded panels, with a stone step and an overlight; the door to number 4 has looped radial bars and that to number 6 has plain radial bars. The doorcases are fitted with panelled pilasters and moulded pediments with dentils.

The windows in the second and third storeys are inset from those in the first storey. Originally the sashes were probably flush. In the first storey, numbers 4 and 6 retain flush 12-pane sashes, number 8 has replacement 4-pane recessed sashes and number 10 has replacement 2-pane recessed sashes. In the second storey, number 4 has replacement 6-pane recessed sashes, number 6 has flush 12-pane sashes, and numbers 8 and 10 each have one 4-pane sash and one sash with the bar removed from the upper leaf; number 10 has a second storey sillband. In the third storey, numbers 4 and 6 have 6-pane flush sashes and numbers 8 and 10 have replacement 4-pane recessed sashes. An ornate rainwater head appears at the east end of number 10.

The rear of number 4 contains a long rear wing, possibly originally servants' quarters but now comprising flats. This wing has a door of four fielded panels with a 9-pane overlight adjoining the 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 six 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.

Number 6 has a flush sash east of centre to each storey and a 4-pane flush sash to the attic. A rear wing of two storeys with ridge parallel to the main block has a canted oriel added on the second storey. The rear elevations of numbers 8 and 10 have been rebuilt in the later 20th century.

The interior of number 4 is largely altered, featuring an inner door now part-glazed with side-lights in a basket-arched opening with panelled pilasters. Doors with six fielded panels access the front and rear rooms and cellar. Panels are set beneath a window in one rear room. The open-string dogleg stair has shaped brackets, two steps at the half-landing, fluted newels and two plinthed stick balusters per step, with a curtail step and wreath to the swept handrail. The second storey has six-panel doors, fielded to the principal rooms; the front room, now subdivided, retains a cornice. The stair continues at the opposite side of the house to the third storey, with plinthed square newels, modest shaped brackets, two plinthed stick balusters per step and a swept rail. Doors of four fielded panels open to the third storey rooms, with panels beneath each front window and a simple cornice. The interiors of numbers 6, 8 and 10 could not be inspected.