Stanley House

Stanley House is a timber-frame house dating to the mid-16th century, with alterations in later centuries. It has group value from the perspective of architectural or historic interest. The house is laid out in an L-shaped plan, comprising a main east-west range parallel to the street and a cross wing extending south at the east end. The external appearance is characterized by plastered and colourwashed timber framing with plaintile roofs. The main range has a three-window front at the first floor. The ground floor features exposed close studding with two 10/10 unhorned sashes in flush frames. These interrupt two frieze windows, now appearing as two blocked, four-light hollow-mullioned windows on either side. A six-panelled C18 fielded panel door is set within an eared doorcase with a pulvinated frieze and pediment. Traces of plaster panelling remain on the first floor. The rear of the main range has a four-window range with a two-story early 17th-century stair turret added, topped with a pyramid roof and a 66 sash window. Further alterations include French windows with margin glazing and a mix of 19th and 20th-century casement windows. The cross wing presents a gable end to the street with one 10/10 unhorned sash to the ground and first floors, and a 2-light attic casement. The east return features a four-window range of mixed 19th and 20th-century casements at the first floor, and a lean-to outshuts on the ground floor. Internally, the timber frame is of medium scantling, with jowled principal posts and straight corner braces. The principal range incorporates boxed bridging beams to ground-floor rooms. One room features a depressed four-centred fireplace. A closed-string early 17th-century staircase, with turned balusters, newel posts, and moulded handrails, is present. A first-floor west room has a roll and wave-moulded wall plate and two blocked hollow-moulded four-light mullioned windows. One unblocked three-light hollow-moulded mullioned window is located in the south wall, and there are two similar blocked mullioned windows in the east end. The roof of the principal range is not visible. A ground-floor room in the cross wing has mid-18th century large-framed panelling, with a chimneypiece between fluted pilasters, and a clasped purlin roof with curved windbraces.