Stanley House

MELLOR SD 62 NW 8/26 Stanley House 24-8-1952 - II* House, said to have been dated 1640 (Pevsner). Sandstone rubble. Left-hand bay pebbledashed with slate roof. Other bays, now unoccupied, have stone slates now partly missing. 3 storeys, with 2 bays to left of 3-storey porch and one bay to right. Stone cornice. Windows mullioned, with outer chamfer on ground and 1st floors, and with hoods. 1st and 2nd bays have 6-light ground-floor windows and ones of 5 lights on the 1st floor. The right-hand bay has 6 lights to both the ground and 1st floors. The 2nd floor windows are of 3 lights. The porch has 3-light windows, the upper one stepped. Below the 1st floor window is a blank panel with moulded border. The porch doorway has a cambered head and moulded jambs. Chimneys on gables (with projecting stacks) and in line with porch. Inside, the door opens against the side of the hall fireplace, which has a moulded bressumer and jambs. The doorway from the lobby into the right-hand room has been bricked up and a new doorway cut through at the rear of the stack. At the rear of the hall is a stair projection, now without its original stair. The left-hand wall of the hall, dividing it from the occupied part of the house, is a later replacement in brick. The right-hand room has heavy roll-moulded beams and a large blocked fireplace with moulded jambs. On the 1st floor there are said to be 2 fireplaces with cambered bressumers and moulded surrounds. RCHM report December 1977.

Listing NGR: SD6456429933