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Latitude: 53.7088 / 53°42'31"N
Longitude: -2.114 / 2°6'50"W
OS Eastings: 392574
OS Northings: 423598
OS Grid: SD925235
Mapcode National: GBR FTPK.47
Mapcode Global: WHB8K.H1KM
Plus Code: 9C5VPV5P+GC
Entry Name: Stones House
Listing Date: 22 February 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1230563
English Heritage Legacy ID: 405501
ID on this website: 101230563
Location: Gauxholme, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, OL14
County: Calderdale
Civil Parish: Todmorden
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Todmorden St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
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
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