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Great House and Great House Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Luddendenfoot, Calderdale

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7342 / 53°44'3"N

Longitude: -1.9553 / 1°57'19"W

OS Eastings: 403043

OS Northings: 426421

OS Grid: SE030264

Mapcode National: GBR GTS8.G4

Mapcode Global: WHB8F.YD1N

Plus Code: 9C5WP2MV+MV

Entry Name: Great House and Great House Cottage

Listing Date: 15 November 1966

Last Amended: 19 July 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1299333

English Heritage Legacy ID: 339398

ID on this website: 101299333

Location: Midgley, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX2

County: Calderdale

Electoral Ward/Division: Luddendenfoot

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Luddenden with Luddendenfoot

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE
SE 0226 & SE 0326
(north side), Midgley
4/266
Great House and Great
15.11.66 House Cottage (formerly
listed as Great House
and barn)
GV II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Mid C17, subdivided C19. Coursed squared stone,
stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through passage and central rear
service wing. 2 storeys, 2 bays with cross-wing on right. Double-chamfered mul-
lion windows to ground floor and 1st floor of cross-wing, other 1st-floor windows
single-chamfered. Bay 1 has C19 doorway in former window surround on left,
6-panel door in quoined, stop-chamfered, Tudor-arched surround on right, and on
1st floor a 3-light window and a round-arched light. Bay 2 has a 2-light fire
window (mullion removed), a tall 5-light window and an inserted C19 doorway with a
3+2+3-light window above. Cross-wing has a 6-light, now 3-light, ground-floor
window and a 6-light window above under hoodmould with heart stops. Continuous
ground-floor dripmould, stepped at left end. Kneelers and ashlar coping to
gables. End stack to left; ridge stack between bays 1 and 2 and to cross-wing;
offset external stack to right of cross-wing. Rear: chamfered mullion windows
unless otherwise stated. Cross-wing: on ground floor a blocked 3-light window and
a single-light window with a 5-light double-chamfered mullion window under hood-
mould above; ashlar coping; crocketed finial. Central, gabled wing: 4-light, now
2-light, ground-floor window; 6-light double-chamfered mullion window under hood-
mould above; kneelers, ashlar coping; lateral stack on left; in left return on
ground floor, windows of 3 and 2 lights linked by inserted window, 3-light window
above; in right return, later doorway with tiestones and ledge on its left, plain
gutter brackets. Bay 3: stop-chamfered quoined doorway to left of 5-light flat-
faced mullion window (1 mullion removed, part blocked) with 3-light cavetto-
moulded mullion window above; 2 chamfered gutter brackets. Right return: to left
of stack an inserted C19 doorway under dripmould returned from front, with a
2-light double-chamfered mullion window above; to right of stack a small square
light and a 2-light chamfered mullion window above (mullion removed). Interior:
central housebody has bressummer beam on heck post with padstone, pegged mortice
at base (possibly to take timber supporting a bench), and jowelled head; stop-
chamfered spine beams; board door to rear wing with round-arched central panel and
segmental-arched wooden lintel with roll moulding. RCHM report records that on
both floors the left room is divided from rest of house and suggests it was a
separate work and store room; it also records one king-post roof truss with verti-
cal struts above passage. RCHM(E) Report (31447).


Listing NGR: SE0304326421

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