Greystones Farmhouse And Cottage

Greystones Farmhouse and Cottage is a mid-17th century farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings. It is located on Greystones Road, Luddenden Foot, near Sowerby Bridge. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble, brought to course and rendered to the front and part of the rear, with a stone slate roof. It originally had a through-passage plan.

The main block is two storeys and four bays, with a partial outshut and a rear wing. The left bay projects forward and has quoins. The front features a blocked three-light chamfered mullion window, a glazed door in a plain stone surround, an eight-light double-chamfered mullion window with a king mullion, and a five-light double-chamfered mullion window to the right of the door surround. Above the two right-hand windows is a continuous hoodmould with a heart stop to the left. On the first floor are a two-light flat-faced mullion window, a three-light chamfered mullion window (with mullions removed), a four-light (now two-light) chamfered mullion window, and a four-light flat-faced mullion window. An external stack with quoins and offsets is located to the right, with a renewed top; there is also a ridge stack to the right of the door and to the left.

The rear outshut is under a catslide roof and has quoins, a two-light and a three-light chamfered mullion window (mullions removed), and a dripstone over the three-light window. A projecting gabled wing in the centre has quoins, a gable stack, and a five-light double-chamfered mullion window with a hollow-moulded dripstone in its right return, along with a four-light (now two-light) window above. To the right of the wing is a board door in a plain stone surround with a chamfered light over. A portion to the right breaks forward and is quoined.

Inside, a quoined doorway from the through-passage has a wood lintel. A room in the rear wing, divided from the front of the house by a plank and muntin partition wall, has a large chamfered, quoined fireplace with a deep triangular lintel and a bread oven on its right. A stop-chamfered spine beam is also present. The main house, formerly two rooms now combined into one, has, in the former left room, a large chamfered fireplace with a deep lintel, and in the former right room, a chamfered, quoined, arched fireplace with a deep lintel, a stop-chamfered spine beam, and joists. On the first floor, a plank and muntin rear partition wall runs the length of the house. Straight braces rise from wall posts to plates and tie beams. The roof features king-post trusses with braces to the ridge piece, the right-hand truss having 'V' struts.