YEW TREES

YEW TREES, 1 AND 2, ST GILES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133823
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: YEW TREES
Statutory Address:: YEW TREES, 1 AND 2, ST GILES ROAD

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Date:: 2003-10-23
Reference:: IOE01/11307/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133823
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: YEW TREES
Statutory Address 1:: YEW TREES, 1 AND 2, ST GILES 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:: YEW TREES, 1 AND 2, ST GILES ROAD

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 13033 24926

Details

BRIGHOUSE ST. GILES ROAD SE 12 SW 3/162 Nos. 1 and 2 Yew Trees

II

House in 2 occupations. Mid to late C17. Cross-wing with late C18 alterations to hall range. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, rendered to sides and rear, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan. 2 storeys with single storey outshut to rear of hall range. 2 room south front of 2 bays. 1st bay is remainder of hall range of late C18 possibly replacing earlier timbered hall to which was added a cross-wing in C17. To this bay are flat faced mullioned windows of 5 lights to each floor, the centre light of which is slightly wider than others. Tall paired doorways with composite jambs abut cross-wing with 2-light window over. 2nd bay forms cross-wing which projects. Return wall has small chamfered window (solid). Coped gable with kneelers and double chamfered mullioned and transomed windows of 12 lights to ground floor (having lost transoms, now forming 3 large windows) and 10 lights to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has tall lateral stack with offsets and double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds of 6 lights with 5 lights over, flanked by 2-light windows to each floor. Rear has coped gables, kneelers and gable stack. Cat slide roof to single storey outshut. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities, (Halifax 1885) p.25. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.20.

Listing NGR: SE1303324926

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Legacy System number:: 338905
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 25
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 20

Legal

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