COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE

COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE, COMBS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183467
Date first listed:: 29-Jun-1949
List Entry Name:: COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE, COMBS ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-20
Reference:: IOE01/00885/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183467
Date first listed:: 29-Jun-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE, COMBS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COMBS HALL FARMHOUSE, COMBS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 25176 18896

Details

DEWSBURY CB COMBS ROAD SE 21 NE (Thornhill)

6/32 Combs Hall Farmhouse 30/6/119 (formerly listed wizh G.V. Brewhouse )

II

Farmhouse. Probably mid C17 (before 1661). Ashlar, part rendered. Stone slate roof with chamfered gable copings. Two ashlar gable stacks, both reduced, that to left on broad offset projecting chimney breast. Two storeys, plus attic. Two-cell plan with central stair. Two- gabled facade with central ornamental lead rainwater-head with date 1661. In each apex is a blocked chamfered single light. 2 central doorways with Tudor arched head with 4-light double chamfered window to each side and to 1st floor right. To 1st floor left are two 2-light windows both double chamfered. Blocked later large square opening above door. String course above ground and 1st floors. Two 3-light windows at rear and one 5-light at 1st floor level, all double chamfered. Round-arched fire-window to right gable, 1st floor.

Interior: Wide shallow arched moulded fireplace to left room corresponding to projecting stack. Stop-chamfered beams. Central stair with flat, vertically symmetrical, bulbous balusters with incised decoration.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967.

Listing NGR: SE2517718896

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Legacy System number:: 340717
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.