Lower Shape Farmhouse
LOWER SHAPE FARMHOUSE, HIGHAM AMD DOB LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134504
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Shape Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SHAPE FARMHOUSE, HIGHAM AMD DOB LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134504
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Shape Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SHAPE FARMHOUSE, HIGHAM AMD DOB 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:
- LOWER SHAPE FARMHOUSE, HIGHAM AMD DOB 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 03169 23557
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE HIGHAM AND DOB LANE SE 0223 and SE 0323 (south side), Sowerby 11/84 Lower Snape Farmhouse (formerly listed as 15.11.66 Snape Farm, Higham and Dob Lane) - II Farmhouse. Dated 1623. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 3-cell through-passage plan with central rear wing and single-storey rear outshut to left. 2 storeys, 4 lst-floor windows. Plinth. On left of right cell a decorative-stopped, chamfered, quoined, triangular-headed doorway with sunk spandrels and raised dated panel to lintel; above it is carved a recess with bell. To left of door, double-chamfered mullion windows of 6 lights (parlour), 7 lights (housebody) and 2 lights (fire window); single-chamfered mullion windows, to right of 3 and 2 lights, and on lst floor of 5, 5, 2 and 3 lights (from left). Continuous ground-floor dripmould with heartstop on right, rising over bell and curving down over right hand windows which are set lower. Shaped kneelers, chamfered ashlar coping. End stacks, left one external and ridge stack between 2nd and 3rd cells. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Left cell: 2 doorways with plain stone surrounds, that on right more massive, with 2-light window on left and 2-light flat-faced mullion window above. Wing: gable stack; in left return a 5-light window to ground floor and a 4-light window above; in right return a chamfered light on lst floor. Outshut: central door with plain stone surround flanked by 2-light windows (mullion removed from left one). Left return: 2-light windows, to right of stack one on each floor, that on ground floor with dripmould, to left of stack one on lst floor. Right return: blocked windows, of 3 lights and 2 lights above. Interior: housebody: inglenook with chamfered bressumer and heck post and later stone fireplace. Stop-chamfered spine beams; stone stair under which is a segmental-arched doorway to blocked barrell-vaulted cellar. Right hand room has chamfered, quoined fireplace with bulbous stops, monolithic lintel and chamfered ledge; 2 stop-chamfered spine beams on corbels. Room above this has a stop-chamfered fireplace with tie-stones and triangular-headed, segmental-arched lintel. 3 king-post roof trusses with angle braces, the left 2 with chamfered tie beams, the right one with V struts.
Listing NGR: SE0316923557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339226
- 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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