Height Farmhouse

HEIGHT FARMHOUSE, DYKE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1133930
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Height Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HEIGHT FARMHOUSE, DYKE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1133930
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Height Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HEIGHT FARMHOUSE, DYKE LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HEIGHT FARMHOUSE, DYKE LANE

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Erringden
National Grid Reference:
SD 96951 25168

Details

SD 92NE ERRINGDEN C.P. (off) DYKE LANE, SD 969251 Todmorden

1/2 Height Farmhouse

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- II House. Late C16. 3-room hall and cross-wing plan with through-passage with added dairy to rear C17. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Hoodmould continues over ground floor windows. South front has 6-light double chamfered cavetto mullioned windows, the centre 2 lights reduced; doorway with deep stop chamfered surround; 2-light fire-window with lowered sill; former 6-light housebody window with king mullion with lowered sill altered to 4 lights. 1st floor has 2 flat faced mullioned windows of 4 broad lights, early C19, with a single light set between. Cross-wing breaks forward under cat-slide roof with main range, as at Cruttonstall (q.v.), but is flush with rear range. It has altered former 4-light window with lowered sill now forming 2 wide lights. Over is 4-light double chamfered mullioned window. Coped gables with kneelers. 3 stacks of C18 character to ridge. Left hand return wall has former 3-light double chamfered mullioned window blocked to door with drip stop over. 3-light window to 1st floor. Rear has 6-light chamfered mullioned window with cavetto mullions to right of through passage door with deeply chamfered surround. Over is a 4-light flat faced mullioned window and a single light. Dairy breaks forward. 2 storeys. Coped gable with kneelers. 6-light double chamfered mullioned window with 2 over 4-light stepped double chamfered mullioned window. Corner stack. Rear of cross-wing has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window to both floors. Right hand return wall has former 2-light window. 2 flat faced mullioned windows of 3 broad lights to 1st floor. C.F. Stell, p.69. ..

Listing NGR: SD9695125168

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338570
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Sources

Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960)

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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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