Dean House
DEAN HOUSE, BRIDLE STILE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300073
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Dean House
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN HOUSE, BRIDLE STILE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300073
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Dean House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEAN HOUSE, BRIDLE STILE
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:
- DEAN HOUSE, BRIDLE STILE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 13099 27827
Details
SHELF BRIDLE STILE SE 12 NW; 1/17 Dean House
II
House, of hall and cross-wing plan, 2 storeys. Cross wing is early C17; Hall is mid C18 probably replacing an earlier structure. Dressed stone to wing and 1st 2 courses of hall which is of hammer-dressed stone above window; stone slate roof. South front of projecting cross wing has finely moulded jambs to double chamfered mullioned and transomed ground floor window with hoodmould over, all mullions and transoms removed, probably of 10 lights with similar window over. Right hand return wall of wing has double chamfered mullioned window of 3 lights broken into to form door to garden, small square light with chamfered surround over. Coped gable with kneelers. Hall is one large cell with quoins to right hand end gable which is coped with moulded kneelers and stack. Long flat faced mullioned window of probably 10 lights retaining only 3 mullions has 5-light window over (one mullion remains). Above outermost pair of lights is square recess with projecting surround probably for date plaque now gone or too weathered to reveal any detail. Rear of cross-wing has two 3-light chamfered mullioned windows with 4-light over (all lacking mullions). Coped gable and crocketed finial to apex. Quoins to the angles as the rear and side wall is in smaller rougher hammer-dressed stone than the facade. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885) p.24 (illustrates house before mullions removed).
Listing NGR: SE1309927827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 24
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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