Carding and Combing Shed at Oats Royd Mill Including Roadside Wall With Gateway
CARDING AND COMBING SHED AT OATS ROYD MILL INCLUDING ROADSIDE WALL WITH GATEWAY, DEAN HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183877
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Carding and Combing Shed at Oats Royd Mill Including Roadside Wall With Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- CARDING AND COMBING SHED AT OATS ROYD MILL INCLUDING ROADSIDE WALL WITH GATEWAY, DEAN HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183877
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Carding and Combing Shed at Oats Royd Mill Including Roadside Wall With Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARDING AND COMBING SHED AT OATS ROYD MILL INCLUDING ROADSIDE WALL WITH GATEWAY, DEAN HOUSE 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:
- CARDING AND COMBING SHED AT OATS ROYD MILL INCLUDING ROADSIDE WALL WITH GATEWAY, DEAN HOUSE 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 03919 26561
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE DEAN HOUSE LANE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (east side, off), 4/163 Luddenden Carding and Combing shed at Oats Royd Mill including roadside wall with gateway GV II Carding and combing shed including roadside wall with gateway. Gateway dated 1885. For John Murgatroyd & Sons. Coursed squared stone and ashlar roof with Welsh slate and glass. Single tall storey, 17 bays, the west wall forming roadside wall with gateway at north end. East front: mid-height band; 4 inserted windows above; plain gutter brackets; the 12 left-hand bays have rainwater spouts between them and the roof is ridged over each bay, being glazed on the north side; the right-hand bays have parapet masking a flat roof. West (roadside) front: wall is approximately 3 metres high with triangular section coping, ramped up on either side of taller, truncated, raised ashlar panel. In base of wall are blocked quoined rectangular openings with deep lintels, giving onto the combing shed, and at a height of approx- imately ½ metre a series of patterned tiled vents. Rusticated elliptical-arched gateway on left has spiked panelled double door, tall dated ashlar surround, and entablature with modillion cornice. A ground plan of the mill complex made in 1898 shows that this building was use for carding and combing. Included for group value. Murgatroyds: ground plan 1898 (674) in the collection of papers on John Murgatroyd and Sons, Oats Royd, 1728-1892 (JM), Claderdale archives.
Listing NGR: SE0397226551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339165
- 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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