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Description: Greave House

Address: Greave House Greave House Fields Luddendenfoot Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6XE

Grade: II

Group detail: Naylor Lane (east side, off), Luddenden

Full description:
Farmhouse. Early-mid C17 with later alterations. Rendered and painted stone, stone slate roof. Original plan of hall and cross-wing with through passage. 2-storeys, 5 bays, 2 left bays gabled cross-wings, 2 right bays set back and lower; rear outshut to bays 3-5. Double-chamfered mullion windows unless stated otherwise. From left: bay 1 has ground floor dug into hillside; keyed Venetian window with plain stone surround to 1st floor, ashlar coping. Bay 2: 5-light window to each floor, ground floor window lacking 2 mullions, 1st-floor window under dripmould; shaped kneeler on right; ashlar coping. Bay 3: moulded doorway to left of 6-light window, now of 3 lights with flat faced mullions; 5-light window above. Bays 4 and 5: windows of 5 and 3 lights to ground floor, and of 5 and 2 lights above, the latter with flat faced mullion. Bays 2-5 have a continuous cyma moulded dripmould. Corniced ridge stacks to bays 1 and 2; another at right end of bay 3 in rear roof pitch. Rear: the gabled wings rise above the outshut, the left one having a later shaped kneeler with ball finial. Interior: barrel-vaulted cellar dug into hillside; a stop chamfered moulded shallow Tudor arched fireplace and another early fireplace blocked; stop chamfered spine beams in housebody and cross-beams in kitchen (cross-wing).