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SD 92SE
SD 952229
7/180

TODMORDEN (former M.B.)
HORSEWOOD
Lower Horse Wood

II
House, dated and initialled S /A E / 1689. Large dressed stone to front, watershot to rear, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Two-cell house. Weathered plinth, quoins, continuous string course which is interrupted to south front by decorative label stops over each window. South front has double chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor and chamfered mullioned to first floor. Reads: two-light fire-window; seven-light housebody window with king mullion (three + four) lacking one mullion; four-light window to parlour lacks one mullion. First floor has three three-light windows. That to parlour chamber retains mullions others are removed. Coped gables with kneelers. No stacks. Left hand return wall has gable entry doorway with depressed Tudor lintel; sunken spandrels, composite jambs and stop chamfered surround. This is protected by contemporary gabled open porch of one and a half storeys, which has plinth, doorway with straight lintel formed of joggled stones with cyma moulded surround. Above the door the stonework jetties out in a timber-framed fashion (similar to porches on houses in Lancashire at Barrowford) set within cyma moulded recess is decorative inscribed tablet. The decoration of roundels is of similar character to the right most label stop. Coped gable with kneelers of identical character to those on house. On the right hand jamb is scratched the dated 1757. Rear has chamfered mullioned windows with almost square surrounds of early C19 character. Two bays of five-light windows to each floor.

Interior: housebody retains large bressumer. Parlour has reeded spine beams.

Listing NGR: SD9529122935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568532

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings