Castle Hill
CASTLE HILL, 60, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134460
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hill
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HILL, 60, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134460
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HILL, 60, TOWN GATE
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:
- CASTLE HILL, 60, TOWN GATE
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 03985 23275
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0223 & SE 0323 ( north side ) , Sowerby 11/279 No 60, Castle Hill 15.11.66 (formerly listed as Nos 56, 58 and 60) GV II House. C16 origins; encased and added to C17, probably mid; altered c.1985. Traces of internal timber frame; coursed rubble and coursed squared stone; stone slate roof. Formerly T-shaped on plan. 2 storeys. Range gable-end to road has one wide bay and formerly extended further to rear; set back on left is single- cell addition (shaft of T). Double-chamfered mullion windows throughout. Road front: quotas. On right, C20 door in plain stone surround to right of single chamfered light. On left, a 3-light, now 2-light, window to each floor. Roof comes down lower on right. Chamfered ashlar coping with head in apex of gable. Ridge stack. Bay set-back on left is of rubble and has a C20 door with chamfered lintel, and to left gable an offset external stack. Rear: main range has been truncated, c.1985, and now has a door on right, a 2-light window on left, and a 3-light window above. Added bay (on right) has lst-floor windows of 1 and 2 lights (mullion removed). Left return: 2-light ground-floor window to main range; a 2-light window with 3-light window above to right of addition stack. Right return: 3 bays, stepped back to right. Right bay has a C20 glazed door under win- dow lintel with C20 window on right and a 2-light window above (mullion removed). Central bay has a 3-light window with 2-light window above. Left bay has a blocked quoined doorway now with a 2-light flat-faced mullion window. Interior: on ground floor remains of the posts of one truss and the wall plate are visible; on lst floor one close-studded bay, between main range and addition, with angle brace to wall post and wall plates. In front room of main range (former No 58) a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched fireplace with another fireplace in room above which has chamfered surround of large blocks of stone.
Listing NGR: SE0398523275
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339411
- 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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