Great House
GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134585
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great House
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134585
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Great House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE ROAD
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:
- GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Todmorden
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 95471 25781
Details
SD 92NE TODMORDEN (former M.B.) GREAT HOUSE ROAD SD 954257 (south side)
3/121 Great House (formerly listed as Great House Farmhouse) 22.11.66
G.V. II
House of 2 cells early C17 with added eastern cross-wing and rear kitchen wing dating from mid C17. Hall range, dressed rubble; east wing finely dressed stone; stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South front of hall range has double chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor only. 5-light window (2 mullions removed) with chamfered mullioned window over of 4 lights now altered to 2. Original doorway to through passage with straight lintel, composite jambs and stop chamfered surround. Doorway broken through next to 2-light double chamfered fire-window (lacks mullion). Altered housebody window now of 3 lights, over is 3-light chamfered window with replaced flat faced mullions. Obscuring this range of windows is wood and glass conservatory mid C20. Cross- wing breaks forward. Plinth, cyma recta moulded drip course, coped gable with kneelers. Return wall has double chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights to each floor. Gable has altered window of 3 large lights with 6-light double chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor and one of 2 lights to apex (solid). Gable stack and hall stack to main range. Well dressed stack of 4 coupled flues to cross-wing. Rear kitchen wing has similar detail to cross-wing and double chamfered mullioned window of 5 lights altered to 3. Over is 5-light window. Gable stack of 2 coupled flues with moulded weathered course. Rear door of hall range has chamfered surround. Other double chamfered mullioned windows survive to side and rear of cross-wing most lacking mullions or altered. Interior of housebody has scarf jointed spine beams, evidence of former bressumer. The large arched gable fireplace to rear kitchen has been mutilated in recent years. A once fine building much abused.
Listing NGR: SD9547125781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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