Rookes Hall With Attached Building Warehouse
ROOKES HALL WITH ATTACHED BUILDING WAREHOUSE, ROOKES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184258
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rookes Hall With Attached Building Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKES HALL WITH ATTACHED BUILDING WAREHOUSE, ROOKES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184258
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Rookes Hall With Attached Building Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKES HALL WITH ATTACHED BUILDING WAREHOUSE, ROOKES 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:
- ROOKES HALL WITH ATTACHED BUILDING WAREHOUSE, ROOKES 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 14063 26388
Details
SE 12 NW
1/157
BRIGHOUSE
ROOKES LANE (west side)
Rookes Hall with attached building warehouse
(formerly listed as Rookes Hall)
3.1.67
GV
II
House, mid C17 with attached warehouse (now garage to ground floor) partly built over service end, mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Double pile on plan.
Two-span roof with coped gable and kneelers, with gable stacks to right hand end. Three-bay front, quoins, string course. Left hand bay has two-storey porch sheltering the entry to the through passage. The porch has an outer door with moulded jambs and shaped lintel. Above the door are flanking miniature columns and sundial dated 1638, solid parapet and finials. The inner door has a broad-chamfered surround. All are double chamfered mullioned windows having lost all transoms and most mullions. Only king mullions remain (most renewed). Window to porch was originally of six lights. Second bay has cross-window/fire-window now solid over unusual four-light oriel with canted side; and remains of large mullioned and transomed 20-light hall window, with 12-light mullioned and transomed window over. Third bay has 16-light mullioned and transomed window to parlour with 12-light over. Between the second and third bays at first floor, is cross-window with hoodmould and projecting rainwater head. Right hand return wall has evidence for cross-window now solid and other mullioned windows of two lights now altered. Rear of double pile has quoins and double chamfered mullioned windows of four and six lights to ground floor with one window of several lights now reduced by inserted door but still with hoodmould over. To first floor are two 12-light mullioned and transomed windows and a two-light window between (all with most mullions and transoms removed). Rear doorway of through passage, has large square-headed lintel and composite jambs with taking-in door over (part solid and window). One small two-light window survives from earlier service room with raised roof in large warehouse connected with textile manufacture. Four stacks.
Interior: The through passage has heavy joists 7" x 4½" stop chamfered at the east end; backing on to the passage is a fireplace with moulded jambs and elaborate stops and shallow arched lintel. A leaf pattern is carved in the stone surround. The parlour has fireplace with shallow arched lintel with carved spandrels with shields and moulded jambs.
The remains of a fine building, severely mutilated. (Previous state illustrated in). G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities (Halifax, 1885), p.21. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.9.
Listing NGR: SE1406326388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hepworth, G, Brighouse its Scenery and Antiquities, (1885), 21
Nortcliffe, D, Buildings of Brighouse, (1978), 9
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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