Templar Cottage, Beckfoot Farmhouse and Beckfoot Cottage
TEMPLAR COTTAGE, BECKFOOT FARMHOUSE AND BECKFOOT COTTAGE, BECKFOOT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133417
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Templar Cottage, Beckfoot Farmhouse and Beckfoot Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLAR COTTAGE, BECKFOOT FARMHOUSE AND BECKFOOT COTTAGE, BECKFOOT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133417
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Templar Cottage, Beckfoot Farmhouse and Beckfoot Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLAR COTTAGE, BECKFOOT FARMHOUSE AND BECKFOOT COTTAGE, BECKFOOT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLAR COTTAGE, BECKFOOT FARMHOUSE AND BECKFOOT COTTAGE, BECKFOOT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bingley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10505 38424
Details
SE13NW BINGLEY BECKFOOT LANE SE105384 (west side)
6/46 Templar Cottage, 9.8.66 Beckfoot Farmhouse and Beckfoot Cottage (formerly listed as Beckfoot Farm House)
GV II
House in 3 occupations. Initialled and dated " TB 1617 " with mid-C17 addition and midC20 alteration. Large dressed stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. Two 3-cell plan houses, attached in line forming a long range. House to left: T-shaped with cross-wing. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows, those to 1st floor have almost square reveals. 1st cell has 4-light window (lacking 2 mullions) with 3-light above. 2nd cell, housebody, has 2-light fire-window to left of 5-light window with 4-light and 2-light above. Gabled mid-C20 porch at junction with 3rd cell which has 4-light window with same above renewed in concrete. Rainwater spout at junction with earlier house. 2 ridge stacks. Left gable is coped with kneelers. Rear has other 3-light and 2-light windows. Left-hand return wall has 3-light window to 1st floor. Attached to right-hand return is earlier house of 1617. This may have been of 2 cells originally with 3rd cell added. 1st and 2nd cells both set forward of 3rd cell. 1st cell has 5-light window with hoodmould with 4-light above and doorway with composite jambs, Tudor-arched lintel with cyma-moulded surround date-stone set over. 2-light window above 2nd cell, set back, has 6-light window with cottage doorway with monolithic jambs taken out of one light, sill renewed in concrete. 5-light window above. 3rd cell, set back, has 4-light window with 3-light above and doorway with chamfered surround. Coped gables with kneelers. Those to right have lantern finials often associated with the Knights Templars; different finials to apex of each gable. 2 C20 stacks set forward from ridge. Rear: 3rd cell, to left, has Tudor-arched doorway with cyma- moulded surround. 2nd cell breaks forward and has 4-light window with 5 x 5-light mullioned-and-transomed window above. 1st cell has 2-light to left of 4 x 4-light mullioned-and-transomed window with 2-light window and 3-light window above
Interior: House dated 1617 has fine original corner fireplace with Tudor- arched lintel and moulded surround (cyma, step, cyma) and bold stops; stop-chamfered floor joists and spine-beams, one has groove to its soffit for panelling to divide the room. 1st floor has tie-beam with mortices for brace, wall-plate and post indicating that it was timber-framed originally Fireplace has square lintel with cyma-moulded surround. Division between two rooms has board-and-muntin panelling with triple reeded edges. Ground floor of 2nd cell has scarf-jointed spine beams,evidence of former bressumer and fire-hood now replaced by mid-C18 fireplace with monolithic jambs and basket-arched bressumer. King-post roof without struts.
Listing NGR: SE1050538424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337899
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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