Lower Wat Ing

Lower Wat Ing, London Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1134517
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Lower Wat Ing
Statutory Address:: Lower Wat Ing, London Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1134517
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Lower Wat Ing
Statutory Address 1:: Lower Wat Ing, London Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Lower Wat Ing, London Road

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 07329 23112

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 May 2021 to reformat the text to current standards

SE 0623-0723 13/112 SOWERBY BRIDGE Norland LONDON ROAD (east side, off), Lower Wat Ing

15.11.66

GV II Farmhouse, now house, cross-wing now separate and used as outbuilding. Mid C17 of several builds, possibly with earlier origins; late C18 alterations. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through passage. South east (garden) front: two storeys, two bays with added rear range and cross-wing projecting on left. Quoins. Cross-wing: a six-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion and decorative-stopped hoodmould with a six-light single-chamfered mullion window above kneelers shaped coping, finial; lateral stack to right.

Main range: door to right of centre with reset lintel carved "IMM 1664" (possibly the initials of a Milner) and a c.1970 arched window above; to left and right on each floor a four-light flat-faced mullion window and to far left on ground floor a C19 window; kneeler and coping to right; corniced central ridge stack. Rear: cross-wing on right is set back; the added range is not full width and on the left the main range has a plain stone-surround doorway and a two-light hollow-chamfered mullion window with a similar three-light window above. The added range has, on ground floor, double-chamfered mullion windows of six lights with king mullion, and of three lights, under a continuous dripmould with decorative stops; on first floor single-chamfered mullion windows of six and three lights; external stack to left. The left return of this range has a chamfered quoined doorway to internal porch, a double-chamfered square light, and a three-light chamfered mullion window above, all to left of stack. Its right return has double-chamfered mullion windows of three lights (mullions restored) to ground floor and of four lights with diamond-stopped hoodmould to first floor. The cross-wing has chamfered mullion windows of three and two lights to ground floor and of four lights above. Gutter spout in angle between added range and cross-wing. Left return: a C19 doorway to left of three-light window, formerly chamfered mullioned with similar intact window above.

Interior: porch has inner board doorway with original hinges and wooden bar in hole in passage wall. From the through passage a recessed chamfered quoined doorway leads into the housebody. This has a large stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched fireplace with beam above supporting stop-chamfered spine beams; incised joists; in left wall are two triangular-headed doorways into cross-wing with pegged wooden surrounds and reused carved panel doors; separating housebody from rear kitchen is rail and post with 1958 plank and muntin panelling. Kitchen has large segmental-arched fireplace with small window to one side, chamfered spine-beams and stop-chamfered joists. Stair has reused turned balusters at top. Cross-wing, on ground floor, has mortice in soffit of central cross-beam indicating position of former partition; on the first floor the plank and muntin partition survives, the muntins with incised decoration; above it a king-post truss with V braces. First floor of main range: in central room chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace with bicusped lintel and moulded cornice; central king-post truss with angle braces and another at right end with V braces, cambered tie beam and braces to ridge piece.

RCHM(E) Report (31469).

Listing NGR: SE0732923112

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 339254
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.