Great House

Details

SE 01 NW
SE 024192
5/43
15.8.66

RIPPONDEN (former U.D.)
GREAT HOUSE LANE , Soyland
Great House


II*

House dated 1624. Ashlar, stone slate roof to main 2-storey range which has
3 gables with parallel ridges to west of through-passage. Lower range in
hammer dressed stone with modern tile roof to which is attached gabled porch
with Tudor arched lintel inscribed with date, moulded surround with carved
spandrels, coping forms triangular pediment. This lower building has 3-light
chamfered mullioned window to both floors. Main range, flush with porch, has 3
coped gables with parapet and lantern finials, rainwater chutes to valleys.
Plinth continues round this range. Most windows are double chamfered mullioned
and transomed all lacking some mullions with continuous string course which
steps over ground floor windows and hoodmoulds with decorated label stops of
differing designs to 1st floor. 1st cell has 4-light window with inserted mid
C20 doorway and 6-light window over to 1st floor. 2nd cell has 10-light window
with 8-light window over to 1st floor. 3rd cell under wider gable has 10-light
window and cross fire-window with 8-light window over to lst floor. Each gable
has columbarium. Rear has double chamfered mullioned windows without transomes
of 2, 3 and 4 lights. 2 gables set further forward than outer gable. 4 stacks.
Through-passage doorway has simple chamfered surround.

Interior: Housebody preserves original bressumer carried on heck-post with
plank-and-muntin fire-screen. The parlour retains its original fireplace with
Tudor arched lintel with shields set in sunken spandrels, moulded jambs with
elaborate stops. The stone overmantel is carved with blank arcading and
roundels very simlar to the fireplace in the parlour of Swift Place, Rochdale
Road (q.v.). It is possible this area is similar and lacks the flanking columns
and other details. Parlour to west wing has fireplace with chamfered surround.
RCHM (England) report, JH Priestly 'Three Stanningden Houses', Transactions of
the Halifax Antiquarian Society (1944) pp 32 - 35.

Listing NGR: SE0242519244

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Sources

Books and journals
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society in Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, (1944), 32-35

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