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Description: Height Farmhouse

Address: Height Farm Dyke Lane Eastwood Todmorden West Yorkshire OL14 6EL

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Dyke Lane, Todmorden

Full description:
House. Late C16. 3-room hall and cross-wing plan with through-passage with added dairy to rear C17. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Hoodmould continues over ground floor windows. South front has 6-light double chamfered cavetto mullioned windows, the centre 2 lights reduced; doorway with deep stop chamfered surround; 2-light fire-window with lowered sill; former 6-light housebody window with king mullion with lowered sill altered to 4 lights. 1st floor has 2 flat faced mullioned windows of 4 broad lights, early C19, with a single light set between. Cross-wing breaks forward under cat-slide roof with main range, as at Cruttonstall (q.v.), but is flush with rear range. It has altered former 4-light window with lowered sill now forming 2 wide lights. Over is 4-light double chamfered mullioned window. Coped gables with kneelers. 3 stacks of C18 character to ridge. Left hand return wall has former 3-light double chamfered mullioned window blocked to door with drip stop over. 3-light window to 1st floor. Rear has 6-light chamferedmullioned window with cavetto mullions to right of through passage door with deeply chamfered surround. Over is a 4-light flat faced mullioned window and a single light. Dairy breaks forward. 2 storeys. 2 storeys. Coped gable with kneelers. 6-light double chamfered mullioned window with 2 over 4-light stepped double chamfered mullioned window. Corner stack. Rear of cross-wing has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window to both floors. Right hand return wall has former 2-light window. 2 flat faced mullioned windows of 3 broad lights to 1st floor. C.F. Stell, p.69.