Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427963

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)