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Description: Great House and Great House Cottage

Address: Great House Farm Dairy And Cottage Towngate Midgley Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6UH

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Gate (north side), Midgley

Full description:
(Formerly listed as Great House and barn). Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Mid C17, subdivided C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through passage and central rear service wing. 2 storeys, 2 bays with cross-wing on right. Double-chamfered mullion windows to ground floor and 1st floor of cross-wing, other 1st-floor windows single-chamfered. Bay 1 has C19 doorway in former window surround on left, 6-panel door in quoined, stop chamfered, Tudor-arched surround on right, and on 1st floor a 3-light window and a round-arched light. Bay 2 has a 2-light fire window (mullion removed), a tall 5-light window and an inserted C19 doorway with a 3+2+3-light window above. Cross-wing has a 6-light, now 3-light, ground-floor window and a 6-light window above under hoodmould with heart stops. Continuous ground-floor dripmould, stepped at left end. Kneelers and ashlar coping to gables. End stack to left; ridge stack between bays 1 and 2 and to cross-wing; offset external stack to right of cross-wing. Rear: chamfered mullion windows unless otherwise stated. Cross-wing: on ground floor a blocked 3-light window and a single-light window with a 5-light double-chamfered mullion window under hoodmould above; ashlar coping; crocketed finial. Central, gabled wing: 4-light, now 2-light, ground-floor window; 6-light double-chamfered mullion window under hoodmould above; kneelers, ashlar coping; lateral stack on left; in left return on ground floor, windows of 3 and 2 lights linked by inserted window, 3-light window above; in right return, later doorway with tie-stones and ledge on its left, plain gutter brackets. Bay 3: stop-chamfered quoined doorway to left of 5-light flat faced mullion window (1 mullion removed, part blocked) with 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion window above; 2-chamfered gutter brackets. Right return: to left of stack an inserted C19 doorway under dripmould returned from front, with a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window above; to right of stack a small square light and a 2-light chamfered mullion window above (mullion removed). Interior: central housebody has bressumer beam on heck post with padstone, pegged mortice at base (possibly to take timber supporting a bench), and jowelled head; stop chamfered spine beams; board door to rear wing with round-arched central panel and segmental-arched wooden lintel with roll moulding. RCHM report records that on both floors the left room is divided from rest of house and suggests it was a separate work and stone room; it also records one king-post roof truss with vertical struts above passage. RCHM(E) Report (31447).