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Description: Broadfold (formerly listed as Murgatroyd Mansion)

Address: Broad Fold Hall Dean House Lane Luddenden Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6TW

Grade: II

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

Full description:
House, now 13 flats. Dated 1877, converted c1980. For John Murgatroyd. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 x 4 bays. Entrance front: chamfered plinth, 1st floor cill band, 1st-floor impost band with leaf motif, eaves band, frieze with fielded panels, corbelled cornice. Central bay breaks forward and has portico, on 2 step podium, of paired Ionic columns and pilasters supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice; underside of roof has elaborate fibral decorated panel with margins; inside is panelled door with fanlight flanked by arched windows, each with imposts on decorated panels and with keyed moulded archivolt. Ground-floor windows are segment-arched with corbelled cills and archivolts; 1st-floor windows are round-arched with corbelled cills and keyed archivolts; all have C20 windows; central bay has paired windows over portico with marble colonette. Segmental pediment over central bay with Murgatroyd arms and lion-headed swags. C20 mansard roof (originally hipped). Rear: 2-left bays of ashlar in style of front, bay 2 breaking forward and with paired windows; to its left a segment arched doorway with archivolt, the keystone initialled 'JM' and dated segmental pediment. Right-hand bays plainer, of rusticated stone. Right return (garden front): style continued from front. Outer bays break forward and have canted bay windows to ground floor, paired windows above and were formerly under hipped roofs. Interior: entrance hall has dentil cornice and elaborate ceiling rose; stair is cantilevered, of stone, with elaborate wrought-iron balusters and wooden handrail with curtail.