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Description: Holywell House

Address: Holywell House Station Road Holywell Green Halifax West Yorkshire HX4 9AW

Grade: II

Group detail: Station Road (south side)

Full description:
Mansion House, now nursing home, c1860. For the Shaw family (mill owners). Ashlar front, slate roof. 9-bay symmetrical front which breaks forward in the 2nd and 8th bay and again in the central 5 bays. 2 storeys. The central 5 bays are richly treated with deep set round headed windows on both storeys; those to ground floor, which has doors to left and right have colonnettes. To central window first floor (now blocked) there is a balcony on consoles. Heavy consoled cornice carrying parapet, and plainer attic storey to central 3 bays. 2nd and 8th bays each have a two storeyed canted bay window and a plainer cornice. This carries over the outermost bays which have, flat headed windows, those to ground floor with cornices on consoles. Four heavily moulded chimneys symmetrically placed. Some casements but most first floor windows sashed. Rear elevation has central feature with elaborate first floor Venetian window, the jambs formed a coupled pilasters.