Stanley House

Stanley House is a house in a row, dated 1760, located on Easton Street in Portland. It is constructed from squared and coursed stone blocks and features a slate roof with a clay ridge. The house has a symmetrical three-storey, two-window front with a classical porch and a central through passage, along with a rear wing to the right. The windows are three-light casements with stone chamfered mullions and flush surrounds; the ground and first floors have flush plat surrounds, while the top floor has coursed jambs. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments suggests that the top floor may have been added, although the masonry appears to match that of the lower levels.

The central porch is supported by half-round Doric columns and features a moulded pediment. The back wing is similar but only one storey high, with a three-light casement window at the front. There is a stone stack with a skirt and moulded capping on the left and a brick stack on the right. An additional swept-down unit has been added at the back.

Inside, each ground-floor room has small dressed stone fireplaces, and there is a 19th-century tight winder stair in the right room. The wing is accessed through an opening with a cambered head, and there is a similar opening with a hollow mould surround on the north wall of the wing, which was formerly an external door. The first-floor fireplace has moulded jambs and features a lintel with two beehives and the inscription: "1760: William Pearce and Rebecca his wife builded this House."