Description

SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) STONES ROAD
SD 925235

5/292 Stones House

G.V. II

House. 1746. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South front of
7 bays. Moulded plinth, projecting quoins, band, moulded gutter brackets,
cornice. Symmetrical. Single storey enclosed semi-circular porch (early C19).
Doorway with pilasters, to each side curved sashes and glazing, moulded cornice.
Lead roof. Over porch is datestone set within aedicule. Inscription reads:

" W G (for William Greenwood)
1746
Friend I dwell here
And have in store
A little Worldly Pelf
Which on my friend
I keep to Spend
As well as on my Self
What ever fare
Thou findest here
Take welcome for the best
That having got
Disdain thou not
For wanting of the rest. "

6 bays of sash windows with projecting sill, and shouldered architrave with
projecting dropped keystone, to each floor. Left hand return wall has band,
doorway with projecting chamfered surround over which is semi-circular arched
window with architrave, projecting dropped keystone, imposts, sill, moulded
consoles. Right hand return wall has similar window over round-arched doorway
which is protected by a semi-circular stone hood on detached Tuscan columns.
Rear has main feature of large stair window, now sashed, originally transomed.
Other chamfered mullioned windows survive. The house was a Quaker meeting house
but the interior is altered and has late C19 panelling. R. Heape, Inscribed and
Dated Stones and Sundials in and adjoining the Ancient Parish of Rochdale,
(Cambridge, 1926), p.127 and 132.

Listing NGR: SD9257423598

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524235

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback