Description

SE 02NW HEBDEN ROYD C.P. BURLEES LANE,
SE 000270 Mytholmroyd

2/56 Great Burlees (formerly
listed as Great Burlees
19.7.63 Farmhouse)

G.V. II*

House, late C16 cross-wing with added hall range, cross-wing forming a U-shaped
plan with a rear kitchen wing, mid C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof.
2 storeys. West wing has double chamfered mullioned windows with cavetto
chamfered mullions of 6 lights to each floor with hoodmould with straight
return. Coped gable with kneelers. Tall lateral stack to right hand return
wall next to C19 porch covering C16 doorway with stop chamfered surround. Hall
has impressive mullioned and transomed window with 3 king mullions of 20 lights
(4 blocked). Over is 8-light mullioned and transomed window to gabled attic
dormer. Doorway in through-passage position has depressed arched lintel and
stop chamfered surround. Inserted C19 2-light window over. East wing has
10-light mullioned and transomed window to both floors. String course. Coped
gable with moulded kneelers. Right hand return wall has tall lateral stack
and altered C19 2-light windows. Rear kitchen wing has former 4-light chamfered
mullioned window with 3-light window over. Coped gable with stack of C18
character. 3 other stacks.
Interior of west wing has finely reeded spine beams and floor joists. Kitchen
wing has fireplace with segmental arched lintel carried on corbelled jambs with
chamfered surround. Illustrated in A. Comfort, Ancient Halls in and About
Halifax, (1913), p.47. C. F. Stell, p.76, 276.

Listing NGR: SE0000327029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542946

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