Stanley House

Stanley House comprises two houses, now a house and offices, dating to circa 1836, with later additions and alterations. The building was likely constructed by Samuel Bird. It is built of brick with painted stucco facades, and has a Welsh slate roof with cast-iron verandahs.

The building is three storeys high, with a basement, and has six first-floor windows, three to each house. The first floor features a continuous band and six-over-six sash windows in plain reveals with sills and tooled architraves; the three windows to the left have a frieze and cornice. To the right-hand dwelling is a frieze and cornice. The second floor has three-over-six sash windows in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills, with the three windows to the right having blind boxes. A cornice runs along the top, with copings throughout. The ground floor has five tall six-over-nine sash windows in plain reveals, the two on the left with tooled architraves, and the three on the right with blind boxes. The entrances, one to the left at No. 45 Binswood Avenue leading to a three-panel door with side-lights and a cambered overlight with glazing-bars, and the other to the right gable end at No. 13 Kenilworth Road, are accessed by steps and feature a three-panel door with side-lights and a continuous overlight in plain reveals with a tooled architrave. Concealed basements are present. Tall end and centre stacks have cornices. A continuous verandah extends along the ground floor of each house, featuring decorative balusters, barley-twist uprights, and a frieze. A gable end to the right has a continuous first-floor band, frieze and cornice, with a three-over-six sash window in plain reveals.

The rear elevation includes six-over-six, three-over-six, and two-over-two sashes, with a six-over-six staircase sash with margin-lights to No. 45 and a long four-over-four staircase sash to No. 13, all within plain reveals and with sills.

Internally, No. 45 retains original plasterwork, including cornices to some rooms, with a frieze, cornice, and ceiling rose to the front ground floor. Shutters are also present. Barrel vaulted cellars are part of the internal layout. No. 13 was not inspected.

Stanley House and No. 13 Kenilworth Road, along with Nos. 31-45 (odd) Binswood Avenue, form a group and occupy an important corner site. It was built during the layout of Binswood Avenue around 1828, and most houses to the west were completed by 1834.