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Description: Nos. 7, 8 and 9, Dean House Farmhouse

Address: 7 - 8 Dean Houses And Dean House Farmhouse Dean House Lane Luddenden Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6TP

Grade: II

Group detail: Dean House Lane (east side, off), Luddenden

Full description:
House, now 3. Probably early-mid C17, subdivided and altered early-mid C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through-passage. South front: 2 storeys, 4 bays, gabled cross-wing projecting on left. Chamfered mullion windows. Cross-wing: 3-light window flanked by cross-windows, all mullions removed; 3-light window above has round-arched lights with sunk spandrels. Bay 2: Tudor-arched stop-chamfered doorway with board door (No. 7); C19 window above; C19 doorway on right (No. 8). Bay 3: C19 4-pane sash flanked by 3-light windows with arched lights and sunk spandrels; C19 5-light flat faced mullion window above. Bay 4: 2 cross-windows, mullions removed and altered; C19 5-light flat faced mullion window above. 2 ridge stacks and one to left side of cross-wing. Rear: outer bays break forward; roof has been raised over 2 central bays. 2 left-hand bays have double-chamfered mullion windows, those to 1st floor with arched lights and sunk spandrels: bay 1: 6-light (now 3-light) window under hoodmould with face stops with 6-light window above; bay 2; 5-light window now with flat faced mullions, 5-light window above. Bay 4 shows line of former more steeply pitched gable roof. Interior: rear right room (now dairy) has stone fireplace with deep lintel and mantleshelf and chamfered spine beams.