Description

SE 21 SW HUDDERSFIELD ROAD Shelley 6/52 23/6/65 Shelley Hall

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Large detached house. C17 with perhaps slightly later addition to rear, and early C20 block to rear, right. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Stone slate roof with central clustered ashlar stack. Moulded eaves cornice to front and rear with corner finials. Gable copings. Square double-pile plan with added later block. Two storeys. Near-central doorway, part blocked, with richly moulded, deep hood mould. To left is a 2-light window possibly formerly with transom, and a 12-light mullioned and transomed window with king mullion, and to right an 8-light mullioned and transomed window. All double chamfered. A continuous drip mould rises over the doorway as a 2nd hood mould. Above the door is an oval window in a chamfered stone surround. To 1st floor one 4-light, one 2-light and one 3-light window. All double chamfered. The left and right gable apexes each have a blocked 2-light window with hood mould with decorative stops. The right elevation has a 6-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor and a 3-light window to 1st floor above which the drip moulding continuing from the eaves, drops to the window like an inverted hood mould. Further to the right the 2nd gable has a part blocked chamfered doorway with deep lintel and a 4-light window to right. Two 2-light windows to 1st floor and one to attic. All double chamfered. 2-light double chamfered windows to rear and square, 2-storey porch with crenellated parapet, early C20. To the rear, right, is the early C20 added 2-storey block, in keeping.

Interior: Stop-chamfered beams. King-post trusses with angle struts and slightly cambered tie-beam. King post braced to ridge. Some timbers may have been replaced. Original purlins. Some good panelling, chimney pieces and fireplaces but mainly C19 and imported.

Listing NGR: SE2073411210

External Links

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