Swamp Cottage
SWAMP COTTAGE, STYES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134449
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swamp Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWAMP COTTAGE, STYES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134449
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swamp Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAMP COTTAGE, STYES 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:
- SWAMP COTTAGE, STYES LANE
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 03708 23992
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE STYES LANE SE 0223 & SE 0323 (west side, off) 11/250 Swamp Cottage - II Water-powered mill, probably with cottage, now all one house. Probably 1805 (date of penny found in roof construction). Coursed, squared millstone grit, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 lst-floor windows. Quoins. Door on right has tie-stones. Flat-faced mul1ion windows, on ground floor of 4 and 8 lights (1 light blocked), on lst floor of 2, 4 and 2 lights; many of the mullions replaced (from elsewhere in the building). Ridge stack to left of centre. Rear: wheel chamber on left, single-storeyed with gabled roof replaced by glazed pent roof (tablestones of original roof in wall). 1st floor: above wheel-chamber two 2-light windows and one of 1 light. Centrel door, now glazed, which formerly led on to bridge across sluice. To right, a 2-light window. Left return: on right 2 plain-stone-surround doorways, now glazed. On their left a 2-light window. 4-light window above. Right return: a 4-light window to ground floor with two 2-light windows above, all with replaced concrete mullions. Interior: central room has stone fireplace with deep lintel; same to room above. Cross beams. This was one of the early textile mills of the area. At the back of the house is a channel, formerly the sluice; in the garden are the pond, which provided the head of water, and the overflow channel. The building was converted to 2 cottages in 1880 (deeds), probably at the time of building a new mill lower down the hillside (on the mill pond).
Listing NGR: SE0370823992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339382
- 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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