COLDEN GREAT HOUSE

COLDEN GREAT HOUSE, COLDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1226080
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: COLDEN GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COLDEN GREAT HOUSE, COLDEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1226080
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: COLDEN GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COLDEN GREAT HOUSE, COLDEN LANE

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:: COLDEN GREAT HOUSE, COLDEN LANE

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Heptonstall
National Grid Reference:: SD 95959 28776

Details

SD 92NE HEPTONSTALL C.P. COLDEN LANE, SD 959287 Colden 7/54 Colden Great House

1.11.66

G.V. II*

House, partly occupied, partly used for agricultural purposes. 2nd ½ of C16 with early C17 new front to west wing. Large finely dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Hall-and-cross-wings plan with rear kitchen wing rebuilt early C19. West wing has double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion of 6 lights with 4-light window over. Hall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with arched lights, sunken spandrels, and cavetto moulded mullions; 3-light fire window. Hoodmould over both. 1st floor has window with cavetto chamfer altered in early C19 to 10 lights. East wing breaks forward with 2-storey integral gabled porch. Doorway with richly moulded surround and hoodmould has 2-light window over with deep outer chamfer and cavetto inner chamfer and mullion. Similar 5-light window over 5-light window with arched lights. Projecting water spout between the 2 gables. Right hand return wall has truncated extruded stack. Rear has 4-light window with arched lights to 1st floor of east wing. Through-passage doorway has deeply chamfered surround with 2-light window over. Other mullioned windows. 3 stacks to ridge. Interior: Housebody and west wing have finely reeded ceiling beams. King-post truss with chamfered angle struts, one other truss has vertical struts. A fine example of a yeoman clothiers house. C.F. Stell. p.45, 46, 261, 301, 327, 333.

Listing NGR: SD9595928776

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Legacy System number:: 423041
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 45-6, 261
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 301, 327
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 333

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