Stormer Hill, Former Toll-Bar Cottage / Stormer Hill Bar

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 91 NE LITTLEBOROUGH HALIFAX ROAD (south-east side)

2/32 Stormer Hill Bar 2/1/67 (formerly listed as Stormer Hill, former Toll-bar Cottage)

- II Toll-bar cottage, now house. 1838. Hammer-dressed watershot stone and brick with graduated stone slate roof.

2 bays with one storey at front and 2 at rear. Bay added to left in 1911 and large porch added to front. The brick porch is flanked on either side by sash windows (no glazing bars) with square-cut surrounds. Square eaves gutter brackets. Gable and ridge chimney stacks. The additional bay to left is largely in brick on a stone base and extends as a wing to the rear. C20 lean-to porch to rear as well as one original window and an inserted one on the upper floor.

The Rochdale to Halifax and Elland Turnpike road was one of the earliest in the locality, the act being passed in 1734.

Listing NGR: SD9584316880

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1261 IOE Records taken by Brian Lomas; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Lomas. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project