Butterworth End Farmhouse and Butterworth End Cottage
BUTTERWORTH END FARMHOUSE AND BUTTERWORTH END COTTAGE, BUTTERWORTH END LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134557
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterworth End Farmhouse and Butterworth End Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERWORTH END FARMHOUSE AND BUTTERWORTH END COTTAGE, BUTTERWORTH END LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134557
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterworth End Farmhouse and Butterworth End Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERWORTH END FARMHOUSE AND BUTTERWORTH END COTTAGE, BUTTERWORTH END 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:
- BUTTERWORTH END FARMHOUSE AND BUTTERWORTH END COTTAGE, BUTTERWORTH END 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:
- SE0515521405
Details
SE 0421 & SE 0521
18/25
SOWERBY BRIDGE
BUTTERWORTH END LANE
(west side, off)
Butterworth End Farmhouse and Butterworth End Cottage
II
GV
Farmhouse, part now a separate cottage/outbuilding. Mid C17 with later
C17 wing and late C17-early C18 porch subdivided into several cottages early-
mid C19. Coursed squared stone and rubble brought to course (right bay);
stone slate roof. L-shaped plan having wing to rear left, 2nd wing added
parallel to this to rear centre, and 2-storey porch added in the angle of
this later wing and the main range. 2 storeys, 4 bays with through passage.
Quoins to left. Two left bays; refaced C19. Central c1980 porch flanked
by 3-light flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, all except ground-floor
right window with narrow central light. Shaped gutter brackets. Bay 3:
chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway with deep lintel formerly in gabled
porch; above it a C19 window and a reset sundial. Bay 4: C19 doorway to
left of 4-light window with 3-light window above, both chamfered mullioned.
Shaped kneeler and coping to left gable. Ridge stacks between bays 1 and
2 and to wings. Rear: right wing: plinth, quoins on right, eaves lower
on right. A 5-light double-chamfered mullion window (2 mullions removed)
with hoodmould to each floor. C19 doorway to left on ground floor and window
on 1st floor. Left wing: C19 doorway; left return has a 5-light double-
chamfered mullion window to each floor, partly blocked by porch, with hoodmould
to ground-floor window, Porch: blind 1st-floor oculus; entrance in left
return: bricked-up chamfered quoined doorway with deep lintel under blocked
oculus and gable with shaped kneelers and coping; inside is earlier chamfered
quoined shallow-Tudor-arched doorway to main range. Left bay (main range);
blocked 2-light window to ground floor, 4-light window to 1st floor, both
chamfered mullioned. Left return: watershot stone; a blocked 2-light chamfered
mullion window to 1st floor of wing and main range. Interior: through-passage
has stop-chamfered quoined doorway into housebody which has heck beam, large,
roll-moulded, elliptical-arched fireplace with pendant over keystone, and
chamfered spine beams. Right bay has king-post roof truss with angle struts,
large-scantling trenched purlins, rafters and square-section ridge-piece
- all probably C17. Former numerals on panel on housebody chimney breast
reported to read "1656"? (RCHM(E) report (31454), although Kendall records
the inscription over the fireplace as being '(Mary) 1690', for Isaac and
I - H
Mary Holroyde, Isaac acquiring the property in 1666-7 (Kendall, p 109).
HP Kendall, "Ancient Halls of Norland", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol
2 (1904), pp 93-111.
Listing NGR: SE0515521405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
(1904)
(1904)
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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