Stanley Cottage And Adjacent Premises

Stanley Cottage and adjacent premises are a house, originally built in the early 16th century, and subsequently divided into two dwellings. A stack and floors were inserted in the late 16th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a half-hipped thatched roof. It has five bays, comprising a two-bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay and two storeyed parlour bays; a stack was inserted into the upper bay of the hall. The house has two storeys. A boarded door is located in a cross entry position towards the right, and a second door leads into the parlour. There are mixed glazing bar casements. A central axial ridge stack is present. A boarded cross entry door and a second door into the parlour are located at the rear.

Inside, there are two chamfered service door surrounds, one with a four-centred arched head. In the hall, a semi-octagonal shaft sits on an open truss post, along with an inserted stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and a domical oven beneath the stairs, located behind the stack. On the first floor, the service end has two- and three-light square mullioned window openings. The walling exhibits S-curved arched braces at the angles, and an arch-braced partition leads to the hall, with an octagonal mullion from the original window in the upper bay. Further features include large chamfered four-centred arched braces to a double-chamfered open truss cambered tie beam, a cross quadrate crown post broached to a square base (without a capital), four-centred arched braces to a collar purlin, and light smoke blackening. A closed truss at the upper end of the hall incorporates two angled struts from the tie beam to the principals. The parlour end was reroofed and has not been inspected.