Hand Carr Farm Hand Carr Farmhouse
HAND CARR FARM, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134550
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hand Carr Farm Hand Carr Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HAND CARR FARM, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/01084/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert W Mawer. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134550
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hand Carr Farm Hand Carr Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAND CARR FARM, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HAND CARR FARM, SOWERBY LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- HAND CARR FARMHOUSE, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- HAND CARR FARMHOUSE, 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:
- HAND CARR FARM, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- HAND CARR FARM, SOWERBY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- HAND CARR FARMHOUSE, BOOTH HOUSE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- HAND CARR FARMHOUSE, 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 03081 25191
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE BOOTH HOUSE ROAD SE 0205-0325 (south side), Luddenden Foot 6/10 Hand Carr Farmhouse and Hand Carr Farm 15.11.66 - II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Dated 'ESS 1640', roof raised later C17, C19 and C20 additions. 2 storeys, 4 bays with continuous front outshut and through passage, C19 added bay to left (east) end. North front: main range: roof comes down low over outshut. From left: C20 wing not of special interest; moulded doorway has ogee-moulded, sunk-spandrelled lintel with date panel, hoodmould with floral stops and internal porch with stone benches and inner stop-chamfered shallow-basket-arched doorway; 2-light chamfered mullion window; similar window with mullion removed; inserted doorway (replacing 2-light Window). Shaped kneeler to left. Skylight. Corniced ashlar stack to right end and brick ridge stack above door. Converted attached barn not of interest. Rear: from left: on ground floor a 5-light, a 6-light and a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window, a 3-light chamfered mullion window and a chamfered quoined doorway in c1970 stone and glass porch, all under continuous dripmould with heart-and-diamond stops. On first floor larger blocks of stone above cill level and two 4-light and two 2-light, now 1-light chamfered mullion windows. Added bay on right has plain gutter brackets and eaves stack on right. Left return: the gable of the old house has a C20 window using the jambs of a chamfered window, and a former chamfered window above. Interior: outshut to right of porch has a chamfered wall post and wall plate; right end wall of outshut has former floor into barn; house body has stop-chamfered spine beams with splicing indicating presence of former bressumer and firehood, and a later tall stone fireplace with chamfered ledge. Several of the external decorative features and the initials on the datestone are the same as those at Upper Foot Farmhouse, Burnley Road (qv).
Listing NGR: SE0308125191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339132
- 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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