Dean House

Dean House is a house built in a hall and cross-wing plan, consisting of two storeys. The cross wing dates from the early 17th century, while the hall is from the mid 18th century, likely replacing an earlier structure. The building features dressed stone on the wing and the first two courses of the hall, which is made of hammer-dressed stone above the window, and has a stone slate roof.

The south front of the projecting cross wing showcases finely moulded jambs for a double chamfered mullioned and transomed ground floor window, which has a hoodmould above. The original mullions and transoms have been removed, and it likely had ten lights, with a similar window above. The right-hand return wall of the wing contains a double chamfered mullioned window of three lights that has been altered to create a door to the garden, with a small square light featuring a chamfered surround above it. The gable is coped and has kneelers.

The hall is a single large cell with quoins on the right-hand end gable, which is also coped and features a moulded stack. There is a long flat-faced mullioned window, which originally had ten lights but now retains only three mullions, and a five-light window above it, of which one mullion remains. Above the outermost pair of lights is a square recess with a projecting surround, likely intended for a date plaque that is now missing or too weathered to reveal details.

At the rear of the cross wing, there are two three-light chamfered mullioned windows, with a four-light window above, all of which lack their mullions. The gable is coped and has a crocketed finial at the apex. The quoins at the angles are made of smaller, rougher hammer-dressed stone compared to the facade. The house is illustrated in G. Hepworth's "Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities" from 1885, showing it before the mullions were removed.