Stanley House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1952. A Early Modern House. 1 related planning application.

Stanley House

WRENN ID
floating-pavement-finch
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1952
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Address
Stanley House, Mellor
OS grid reference
SD 645 299
Coordinates
53.76455, -2.53903
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stanley House is a 17th-century house, believed to have been built around 1640. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, with the left-hand bay pebbledashed and featuring a slate roof, while the other bays, which are currently unoccupied, have stone slates that are partly missing. The house has three storeys, with two bays to the left of a three-storey porch and one bay to the right. A stone cornice runs along the top of the building.

The windows are mullioned, with an outer chamfer on the ground and first floors, and they are topped with hoods. The first and second bays have six-light windows on the ground floor and five-light windows on the first floor. The right-hand bay also has six-light windows on both the ground and first floors, while the second floor features three-light windows. The porch includes three-light windows, with the upper one stepped. Below the first-floor window is a blank panel with a moulded border. The porch doorway has a cambered head and moulded jambs.

Chimneys are located on the gables, featuring projecting stacks, and are aligned with the 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 has been created at the rear of the stack. At the back of the hall, there is a stair projection that no longer contains its original stair. The left-hand wall of the hall, which separates it from the occupied part of the house, is a later replacement made of brick. The right-hand room features heavy roll-moulded beams and a large blocked fireplace with moulded jambs. On the first floor, there are reportedly two fireplaces with cambered bressumers and moulded surrounds.

Local climate

Stanley House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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