Stanley Wives Farmhouse

Stanley Wives Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It likely dates from the late 17th century and has undergone alterations and partial remodeling in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure is primarily cruck-framed, with brick cladding on a high plinth of sandstone rubble, and features a corrugated asbestos sheet roof, except for the third bay, which is entirely brick with a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular three-bay baffle-entry plan and is one and a half storeys high, with the third bay rebuilt as a two-storey crosswing.

The upper part of the front wall of the first two bays has been rebuilt in common brick, with openings remodeled to include large splayed stone heads. The main doorway aligns with the ridge and junction chimney stack at the right-hand end of the second bay, with another door in the first bay. To the left of each door is a casement window, and there is a dormer casement in the eaves of the second bay. The third bay features one 19th-century vertical rectangular window on each floor. A large chimney stack is located at the junction of the second bay and the wing, with the sheet roof here interrupted by stone slate at a lower level, and there is a small brick chimney at the left gable.

The left gable wall displays an exposed raised cruck truss with a tie beam, infilled with common brick. The rear of the house has a small outshut for the staircase at the junction of the second bay and the wing, which includes a three-light sliding sash window, along with a small lean-to addition to the first bay. Inside, the central housepart features a heck with a peephole, a large cambered beam with unstopped ovolo moulding, and visible cruck blades in the partition, which has a framed doorway with a cambered lintel. The third bay contains two longitudinal beams with similar decoration, while the first bay is partitioned. The relocated staircase is positioned at the rear of the main hearth in the second bay, rising into the third bay. On the first floor, there are substantial remains of the original cruck-framed structure, including a raised truss in the partition between the first and second bays, both of which have collars, yokes, and trenched windbraced purlins supporting the original rafters. A doorway framed into the second truss has a nicked cambered lintel.