STANLEY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164519
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: STANLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STANLEY HOUSE

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Date:: 2004-08-31
Reference:: IOE01/12260/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164519
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: STANLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STANLEY HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STANLEY HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Mellor
National Grid Reference:: SD 64564 29933

Details

MELLOR SD 62 NW 8/26 Stanley House 24-8-1952 - II* House, said to have been dated 1640 (Pevsner). Sandstone rubble. Left-hand bay pebbledashed with slate roof. Other bays, now unoccupied, have stone slates now partly missing. 3 storeys, with 2 bays to left of 3-storey porch and one bay to right. Stone cornice. Windows mullioned, with outer chamfer on ground and 1st floors, and with hoods. 1st and 2nd bays have 6-light ground-floor windows and ones of 5 lights on the 1st floor. The right-hand bay has 6 lights to both the ground and 1st floors. The 2nd floor windows are of 3 lights. The porch has 3-light windows, the upper one stepped. Below the 1st floor window is a blank panel with moulded border. The porch doorway has a cambered head and moulded jambs. Chimneys on gables (with projecting stacks) and in line with 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 cut through at the rear of the stack. At the rear of the hall is a stair projection, now without its original stair. The left-hand wall of the hall, dividing it from the occupied part of the house, is a later replacement in brick. The right-hand room has heavy roll-moulded beams and a large blocked fireplace with moulded jambs. On the 1st floor there are said to be 2 fireplaces with cambered bressumers and moulded surrounds. RCHM report December 1977.

Listing NGR: SD6456429933

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Legacy System number:: 183511
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.