| Description | Redacre House, Wadsworth. Late 16th century house.
'II* House, late C16. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 room front with F plan, with projecting 2 storey porch and cross wing all with coped gables with kneelers with a 3rd gable set between over the housebody. 4 linear divisions. 1st is service end with wide altered window with over to 1st floor single arched light with spandrels. 2nd division is formed by porch which breaks forward and has Tudor arched doorway with roll moulded surround. 1st floor jetties out with cyma moulded cornice under. All windows are double chamfered mullioned with cavetto moulded mullions and hoodmould. Porch chamber formerly of 3 lights. Set back is 3rd division. Cross fire window to left of 6 light housebody window with king mullion. Over in gabled attic dormer is 3 light window with carved ball to apex stone. Wing breaks forward; inserted doorway with monolithic jambs to left of 6 light window with king mullion. Over, to 1st floor, a single arched light with spandrels to left of 5 light window. Attached to left hand return wall is barn of no interest. This is excluded from the item. Right hand return wall has lateral stack with offsets and diamond set flue slightly truncated. To right is 3 light chamfered mullioned window to rear room. Rear has similar 4 light window to 1st floor. Pointed arched doorway with chamfered surround to former through passage blocked to form a window. 3 stacks to ridge.
Interior: Inner doorway has Tudor arched lintel with stop chamfered surround. Housebody retains stop chamfered bressumer on heck post and segmental arched fireplace on skewbacks with elaborate moulded surround (cyma, step, step). Stop chamfered spine beams and joists. The house is important as it is probably the earliest house in Calderdale exhibiting an F plan
(Stell, C.F. Vernacular. 1960. 'Architecture in a Pennine Community'. Page 75)'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 19/07/1963. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1229121. Web site accesed18/10/2013).
The barn attached to Redacre House is the subject of a separate HER record (see PRN 12866) |