Stones House
STONES HOUSE, STONES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stones House
- Statutory Address:
- STONES HOUSE, STONES ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stones House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STONES HOUSE, STONES 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:
- STONES HOUSE, STONES 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 92574 23598
Details
SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) STONES ROAD SD 925235
5/292 Stones House
G.V. II
House. 1746. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South front of 7 bays. Moulded plinth, projecting quoins, band, moulded gutter brackets, cornice. Symmetrical. Single storey enclosed semi-circular porch (early C19). Doorway with pilasters, to each side curved sashes and glazing, moulded cornice. Lead roof. Over porch is datestone set within aedicule. Inscription reads:
" W G (for William Greenwood) 1746 Friend I dwell here And have in store A little Worldly Pelf Which on my friend I keep to Spend As well as on my Self What ever fare Thou findest here Take welcome for the best That having got Disdain thou not For wanting of the rest. "
6 bays of sash windows with projecting sill, and shouldered architrave with projecting dropped keystone, to each floor. Left hand return wall has band, doorway with projecting chamfered surround over which is semi-circular arched window with architrave, projecting dropped keystone, imposts, sill, moulded consoles. Right hand return wall has similar window over round-arched doorway which is protected by a semi-circular stone hood on detached Tuscan columns. Rear has main feature of large stair window, now sashed, originally transomed. Other chamfered mullioned windows survive. The house was a Quaker meeting house but the interior is altered and has late C19 panelling. R. Heape, Inscribed and Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale, (Cambridge, 1926), p.127 and 132.
Listing NGR: SD9257423598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heape, R, Inscribed and Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale, (1926), 127
Heape, R, Inscribed and Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale, (1926), 132
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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