Description

SE 42 NW
7/84
5th June 1964

ROTHWELL LS26
GREEN LANE
(east side, off)
Methley
Dunford House

GV
II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C18. Brick with stone dressings, stone
slate roof. Rectangular plan of shallow double depth. Three storeys and
5 bays, in classical style, symmetrical; in the centre a doorway and 1st
floor Venetian window with architraves linked by an intermediate panel, the
doorway wide with pilaster jambs, triglyph frieze, and moulded cornice, the
Venetian window with Gibbs-style banded head to the centre and Tuscan
architraves to the side lights, which are ogee-headed; at 2nd floor above
this, a Diocletian window; otherwise, all windows sashed, with moulded sills
and gauged brick heads containing triple keystones, those at ground and
1st floors all 12-paned and those at 2nd floor square, with 6 panes.
Modillioned cornice, gable copings with kneelers, gable chimneys. Right-hand
gable wall has doorway with modern porch at rear corner, a triple sash above
this and 6-pane sash at 2nd floor; each gable has a fluted rainwater head to
the returned end of the gutter cornice. The rear has inter alia a central
round-headed stairlight, various blocked former openings and marks of a
former rear extension.
Interior: contemporary fittings and decoration of unusually fine quality
including: panelled doors with shouldered architraves and cornices; open-well
staircase with curved brackets, open string, 3 balusters per tread and ramped
handrail with wreathed curtail; moulded plaster cornices (some modillioned
and others with egg-and-dart); and fireplaces with shouldered architraves.

Listing NGR: SE4084626160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429031

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)