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Description: Eastwood Old Hall and attached barn

Address: Higher Eastwood Old Hall Farm Eastwood Lane Todmorden OL14 8RU

Grade: II

Group detail: Eastwood Lane (east side)

Full description:
House. Mid C18. Watershot masonry, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Double pile on plan. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. 2-room front. 8-light window with king mullion. Over is 9-light window with king mullion. Slightly off centre door with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment, deeply moulded, with sunken tympanum. Over is window with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice and raised keystone. 4-light window with same over. Cornice. Coped gables with moulded kneelers. 2 stacks to gable ends. Barn set back from main range. Return wall of house has elliptical window at eaves level. Barn has segmental arch on skewbacks, composite jambs with tie-stone. Keystone inscribed 'TME 1767' for Thomas Manley Eastwood. Right hand mistal doorway has tie-stones and chamfered surround. Over arch is former Venetian window broken through to form pitching door. Elliptical ventilator over. Under eaves to left hand end is 4-light chamfered window (solid) to former servants quarter. Left hand return wall of 3 storeys. All are chamfered mullioned windows. That to ground floor of 4 lights inscribed DAIRY. 5-light window to 1st floor. 3-light window to 2nd floor. Columbarium to apex. Moulded copings. Rear of barn has semi-circular arched doorway with tie-stones. Rear of house built into hillside and has entry to 1st floor, doorway with tie-stones (blocked) and long 12-light chamfered mullioned window. This rear room may have been a shop connected with textile manufacture. 2 stacks to ridge.