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Description: Great House

Address: Great House Great House Lane Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 4LQ

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Great House Lane, Soyland

Full description:
House dated 1624. Ashlar, stone slate roof to main 2-storey range which has 3 gables with parallel ridged to west of through-passage. Lower range in hammer dressed stone with modern tile roof to which is attached gabled porch with Tudor arched lintel inscribed with date, moulded surround with carved spandrels, coping forms triangular pediment. This lower building has 3-light chamfered mullioned window to both floors. Main range, flush with porch, has 3 coped gables with parapet and lantern finials, rainwater chutes to valleys. Plinth continues round this range. Most windows are double chamfered mullioned and transomed all lacking some mullions with continuous string course which steps over ground floor windows and hood moulds with decorated label stops of differing designs to 1st floor, 1st cell has 4-light window with inserted mid C20 doorway and 5-light window over to 1st floor. 2nd cell has 10-light window with 8-light window over to 1st floor. 3rd cell under wider gable has 10-light window and cross fire-window with 8-light window over to 1st floor. Each gable has columbarium. Rear has double chamfered mullioned windows without transomes of 2, 3 and 4 lights. 2 gables set further forward than outer gable. 4 stacks. Through-passage doorway has simple chamfered surround. Interior: Housebody preserves original bressumer carried on heck-post with plank-and-mutin fire-screen. The parlour retains its original fireplace with Tudor arched lintel with shields set in sunken spandrels, moulded jambs with elaborate stops. The stone overmantel is carved with blank arcading and roundels very similar to the fireplace in the parlour of Swift Place, Rochdale Road (q.v.). It is possible this area is similar and lacks the flanking columns and other details. Parlour to west wing has fireplace with chamfered surround. RCHM (England) report JH Priestly 'Three Stanningden Houses', Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society (1944) pp 32 - 35.