Stones 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