Stanley House
STANLEY HOUSE, 28, EASTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205481
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley House
- Statutory Address:
- STANLEY HOUSE, 28, EASTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205481
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANLEY HOUSE, 28, EASTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STANLEY HOUSE, 28, EASTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69220 71923
Details
PORTLAND
SY6871 EASTON STREET, Easton 969-1/4/41 (East side) 16/01/51 No.28 Stanley House
II
House in row. Dated 1760. Squared and coursed stone block, slate roof with clay ridge. Two-room heated plan with central through passage and rear wing to right. Symmetrical 3-storey, 2-window frontage with classical porch. Three-light casements with stone chamfered mullions with flush surrounds; at ground and first floors with flush plat surrounds, but top floor has coursed jambs. RCHM suggest top floor added, but masonry appears identical with lower work. Central porch with side walls to half-round Doric columns and moulded pediment. Back wing similar, on one floor only, with a 3-light casement window as front. Stone stack with skirt and moulded capping, left, and brick stack right. An added swept-down unit at back. Interior has small dressed stone fireplaces to each ground-floor room, and a C19 tight winder stair in right room; wing entered through opening with cambered head, and a similar opening with hollow mould surround on north wall of wing, formerly an external door. First-floor fireplace with moulded jambs has, on lintol, 2 beehives and inscription: "1760: William Pearce and Rebecca his wife builded this House". (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 255).
Listing NGR: SY6922071923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381935
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 255
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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