Smith House West and Smith House

Smith House West and Smith House, 121 and 123, Smith House Lane, HX3 8XA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314064
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: Smith House West and Smith House
Statutory Address:: Smith House West and Smith House, 121 and 123, Smith House Lane, HX3 8XA

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Date:: 2002-12-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314064
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: Smith House West and Smith House
Statutory Address 1:: Smith House West and Smith House, 121 and 123, Smith House Lane, HX3 8XA

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Smith House West and Smith House, 121 and 123, Smith House Lane, HX3 8XA

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 14261 24684

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 December 2021 to update the name and address

SE 12 SW 3/163

BRIGHOUSE Lightcliffe SMITH HOUSE LANE No 121 (Smith House West) and No 123 (Smith House)

(Formerly listed as No 121 (Smith House West) and No 123 (Smith Home), previously listed as BRIGHOUSE SMITH HOUSE LANE No. 121 (Smith House West) and No. 123 (Smith House))

3. 1. 67

G. V. II

House in two occupations formerly known as Smith House. Dated 1672 with remains of early C16 timber-framed house. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wings plan. One and a half storeys hall with two-storey wings. At the rear the central area has been built out to give a further two-storey wing. three room front of three bays with projecting two-storey gabled porch at junction of second and third bays forming a lobby entry. First bay has double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds of six lights to both floors. Lantern finial to apex under Which is blocked opening. Central hall bay has double chamfered mullioned and transomed window of sixteen lights with king-mullion. Three-course ashlar parapet is surmounted by lantern finials. Over window is hoodmould which continues round porch which has semi-circular arched doorway with moulded imposts and surround. Over is early C20 cross-window breaking into hoodmould. Lantern finial to apex.

Porch protects doorway with cyma recta-moulded surround, straight lintel with a step to centre of moulding over which is date carved in relief. Third bay is gabled and has early C20 cruciform window of twelve lights to ground floor with two cross-windows to first floor. Return wall is long range with a duality of two gables with two-span roof under the junction of which is doorway with decorated lintel. Drip course continues over windows to both floors which retain double chamfered mullioned windows of four and five lights. Rear has broad central gable of early C18, with three bays of cross-windows the right hand of which is tall staircase window. Quoins to the angles. Attached to right hand end is cross-wing which has a double chamfered mullioned window of four lights to first floor and an arched light (solid) to gable which has lantern finial.

Interior: Fireplace to hall has elaborately inlaid oak overmantel of late C17 flanked by fluted pilasters of early C18 and pulvinated frieze probably dating from C18 refitting of the hall range with a new staircase to rear when the door through to the stair hall was given a wooden surround with a half-round head and fluted pilasters. The stair has turned balusters, a swept handrail and an open string set within a panelled hall. The east wing had originally two rooms, a parlour with its own external door and the north room was a kitchen. its cyma-moulded spine beams have scarf joints breaking on the line of an earlier firehood which was replaced by the present large kitchen fireplace. This has a shallow arched lintel inscribed 1726 IHA (Joseph and Ann Holmes) carried on corbelled jambs with a chamfered surround. The kitchen stair of late C17 has open fretwork on splat balusters, a moulded handrail and a closed string, probably re-used.

G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities, (Halifax 1885), p.17.

Turner, Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, (1908) p. 269.

D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse (Brighouse, 1978) p.22.

Listing NGR: SE1426124684

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Legacy System number:: 338900
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 17
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 22
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(1908)

Legal

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