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Description: Todmorden Edge South

Address: Todmorden Edge South Parkin Lane Todmorden OL14 7JF

Grade: II

Group detail: Parkin Lane

Full description:
House. 1697. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South front has single storey gabled porch dated on lintel of moulded doorway. Coping and kneelers with incised spiral decoration. To left is double chamfered mullioned window formerly of 4 lights (lacking 2 mullions). Over is 2-light window. 3 symmetrically placed stacks to ridge, coped gables with kneelers. Right hand return wall has chamfered mullioned and transomed window of 12 lights with renewed lintel and king mullion. 4-light window over. Window with double chamfered surround to 1st floor. Rear retains double chamfered mullioned window of 7 lights with king mullions, with 3-light chamfered window over. Cross stair-window and to left hand side altered cross window from which John Wesley is said to have preached. Wesley is recorded first visiting the house 6th May, 1747. William Grimshaw held the first Quarterly meeting here on 18th October, 1748. The barn (q.v.) bears the initials of the owners who were Quakers.