Ball Green and Ball Green Cottage
BALL GREEN COTTAGE, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134427
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ball Green and Ball Green Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BALL GREEN COTTAGE, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134427
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ball Green and Ball Green Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALL GREEN COTTAGE, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BALL GREEN, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
- Statutory Address 3:
- BALL GREEN, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
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:
- BALL GREEN COTTAGE, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
- Statutory Address:
- BALL GREEN, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
- Statutory Address:
- BALL GREEN, WELL HEAD LANE, SOWERBY BRIDGE
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:
- SE0352223080
Details
SE 0223 & SE 0323
11/294
15.11.66
SOWERBY BRIDGE
WELL HEAD LANE
(east side)
Ball Green and Ball Green Cottage
(Formerly listed as Ball Green House)
GV
II
House, now house and cottage and one bay an outbuilding, c1600, rear dated 1634,
but rebuilt C19. Coursed squared millstone grit, stone slate roof. 2 storeys,
3 bays, the front half of left bay demolished. Main front (Ball Green Cottage):
truncated left bay has rebuilt gable wall set back. Central and right bays: gabled.
Chamfered plinth, quoins on right. Chamfered quoined doorway on left of central
bay with C20 door and pent porch. Board door in plain stone surround to left of
right bay. Double-chamfered mullion windows, of 5-lights to central bay with above,
a 2-light and a 5-light window both with round-headed lights and sunk spandrels
and a "W" in head of central light of the latter. Right bay has a 4-light window
with 3-light window above. Gables are coped and have shaped kneelers. 2 stacks
with tabling to left pitch of central bay. 2 external stacks to right end, front
one truncated. Rear: 3 gabled bays, outer bays projecting. Left bay has chamfered
plinth, 5-light window with hoodmould and 4-light window above, kneelers and coping.
Central bay has C19 openings with raised plain stone surrounds. Doorway on right
with overlight and tall keystone incised with 'H' and crosses. Above keystone
are remains of earlier datestone, the cornice of which has dated boss. 2 windows
to left of door and 3 above. Right bay has quoins, tie-stone surround doorway
on left, and small rectangular opening with ledge in gable. In left return of
this bay are traces of a C17 1st-floor window. Right return: right-hand stack
has 2 gutter spouts at offset. To right is a blocked, lst-floor, chamfered light.
Interior: left (east) bay, now outbuilding, has flat-arched fireplace with moulded
surround and deep lintel. Heavy-scantling beams. Cyma-moulded spine-beams; stop-
chamfered joists. One king-post truss with cusped brace to ridge-plate and struts,
wattle and daub in gable, indicating division wall in this bay. Wall plates,
purlins, rafters. Kendall suggests that the 'W' on the front window refers to
a member of the Wilde family which occupied the building 1703-63, and that the
symbols over the rear door are possibly a merchant's mark (Kendall pp 202, 230-38).
H P Kendall, "Ball Green". Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 7 (1910), pp 201-239.
Listing NGR: SE0352223080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339432
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Kendall, H P, Volume 7, (1910)
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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