Dean House

SHELF BRIDLE STILE SE 12 NW; 1/17 Dean House

II

House, of hall and cross-wing plan, 2 storeys. Cross wing is early C17; Hall is mid C18 probably replacing an earlier structure. Dressed stone to wing and 1st 2 courses of hall which is of hammer-dressed stone above window; stone slate roof. South front of projecting cross wing has finely moulded jambs to double chamfered mullioned and transomed ground floor window with hoodmould over, all mullions and transoms removed, probably of 10 lights with similar window over. Right hand return wall of wing has double chamfered mullioned window of 3 lights broken into to form door to garden, small square light with chamfered surround over. Coped gable with kneelers. Hall is one large cell with quoins to right hand end gable which is coped with moulded kneelers and stack. Long flat faced mullioned window of probably 10 lights retaining only 3 mullions has 5-light window over (one mullion remains). Above outermost pair of lights is square recess with projecting surround probably for date plaque now gone or too weathered to reveal any detail. Rear of cross-wing has two 3-light chamfered mullioned windows with 4-light over (all lacking mullions). Coped gable and crocketed finial to apex. Quoins to the angles as the rear and side wall is in smaller rougher hammer-dressed stone than the facade. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities (Halifax 1885) p.24 (illustrates house before mullions removed).

Listing NGR: SE1309927827