Higgin Chamber
HIGGIN CHAMBER, SOWERBY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134474
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Higgin Chamber
- Statutory Address:
- HIGGIN CHAMBER, SOWERBY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134474
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Higgin Chamber
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGGIN CHAMBER, SOWERBY 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:
- HIGGIN CHAMBER, SOWERBY 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 03469 24234
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY LANE SE 0224 & SE 0324 (west side ) , 8/222 Boulder Clough 15.ll.66 Higgin Chamber GV II House. Mid C17 with later alterations. Coursed dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Garden front: 2 gabled bays with straight joint between. Right bay refenestrated C19 with a 2-light flat-faced mullion window to each floor. Left bay: double-chamfered mullion windows. Board door in C19 plain stone surround to right of 2-light fire window and 6-light window with transom and king mullion. Dripmould. 9-light window with king mullion and dripmould to lst floor. Blind 2-light window under dripmould in gable. Coping to both gables, shaped kneelers and finials to outer verges, base of apex finial to left gable, head-carved stone on valley coping, arched finial to right gable. Renewed stacks at rear of each bay. Right return (road front): double -chamfered mullion windows. 4-panel door in plain stone surround on right. To left of this a gabled bay projects, having an 8-light window with transom, king mullion and dripmould to ground floor and 3-over- 5-light window with dripstone above. Shaped kneelers, coping, finials. To left of this bay, on lst floor, a blind 3-light chamfered mullion window with painted glazing bars. Roof on right hipped and with finial. Left return: added single-storey outshut on right. To its left a 2-light double- chamfered mullion window, mullion removed. Dripmould over this and at right corner. To left a 4-, now 2-light flat-faced mullion window with a 4-light and 2-light window or same type above. To far left on 1st floor a taking-in door. Interior not inspected. Owned by the Stansfields in the C16 and first half of the C17 and tenanted by the Hopkinson family (Kendall, pp 166-9, 172). HP Kendall, "Higgin Chamber, Sowerby", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 11 (1914), pp157-172.
Listing NGR: SE0346924234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339350
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Kendall, H P, Volume 11, (1914)
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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