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Description: Lord Nelson Inn

Address: The Lord Nelson Inn 15 High Street Luddenden Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6PX

Grade: II

Group detail: High Street (south side), Luddenden

Full description:
House, now public house. Dated "1634, GCP". Rendered stone, stone slate roof. L-shaped plan with rear wing, 2 storeys. Double chamfered mullion windows. North front: 2 gabled bays: on right a board door in triangular-arched doorway with moulded arris, lintel dated. To left, a 2-light window, mullion removed, and an inserted opening to its left. Continuous hoodmould. On first floor a 5-light transomed window under hoodmould with decorative stops (left one restored). Stack in left roof pitch. Right bay: inserted 1st floor window; gable stack. In its left return a blocked chamfered triangular arched doorway (now with window) to left of a 5-light window; continuous hoodmould, returned from left bay. A 6-light window above. Rear: 3 gabled bays, outer bays projecting, that to left as wing. Central bay: door to right of 6-light window with king mullion (1 mullion removed); 6-light transomed window above (most mullions and transoms removed) under dripmould with decorative stops. Dripmould over ground floor openings continues round inner return of right hand bay, which otherwise has renewed openings. Left bay has later 1st floor doorway onto passage stair; in its right return a 4-light flat-faced mullion window to 1st floor and plain gutter brackets.