Stones House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. House.

Stones House

WRENN ID
distant-remnant-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
House
Address
Stones House, Stones Road, Todmorden
OS grid reference
SD 925 235
Coordinates
53.70877, -2.11398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stones House is a house built in 1746, constructed from dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features a symmetrical south front with seven bays. The façade includes a moulded plinth, projecting quoins, a band, moulded gutter brackets, and a cornice. There is a single-storey enclosed semi-circular porch, which dates from the early 19th century. The porch has a doorway flanked by pilasters, with curved sashes and glazing on either side, topped with a moulded cornice and a lead roof. Above the porch is a datestone set within an aedicule, inscribed with a poem attributed to William Greenwood from 1746.

The house has six bays of sash windows on each floor, featuring projecting sills and shouldered architraves with projecting dropped keystones. The left return wall has a band and a doorway with a projecting chamfered surround, above which is a semi-circular arched window with an architrave, projecting dropped keystone, imposts, sill, and moulded consoles. The right return wall has a similar window above a round-arched doorway, which is sheltered by a semi-circular stone hood supported by detached Tuscan columns. At the rear, the main feature is a large stair window, now sashed but originally transomed, along with surviving chamfered mullioned windows. Historically, the house served as a Quaker meeting house, but the interior has been altered and features late 19th-century panelling.

Local climate

Stones House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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