Upper Wat Ing

Upper Wat Ing, London Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184456
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Upper Wat Ing
Statutory Address:: Upper Wat Ing, London Road

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Date:: 1999-08-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184456
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Upper Wat Ing
Statutory Address 1:: Upper 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:: Upper 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 07213 23028

Details

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SE 0623-0723 13/111 SOWERBY BRIDGE Norland LONDON ROAD (east side, off) Upper Wat Ing

15.11.66

II House. Dated 1638 and 1668 with earlier origins; C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. RCHM report suggests a timber-framed hall and crosswing of c.1500 has had lower end rebuilt 1638 and stone encasement and west wing added 1668. Through passage.

North (entrance) front: two storeys, three bays, all formerly gabled, left bay rebuilt after fire, single-pitched and projecting. It has single-storey pent-roofed projection to front and gutter spout in angle with central bay. Central bay: ground floor masked by C20 single-storey addition; on first floor a three-over five-light double-chamfered mullion window under dripmould with blind arched light to left. Right bay: a one-light and two-light window with two-light window above, all with chamfered mullions. Gables have shaped kneelers, coping and finials. Large stack to ridge of left bay; another between central and right bays.

Rear: three gabled bays. Right bay projects slightly and has plinth; formerly a door to left; a three-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion and hoodmould to ground floor and, above it, a similar window without king mullion and with roundel stops and date '16' '38' to hoodmould. Central bay: door to left and above it a reset bi-cusped lintel dated '1668 (George Towne); on each floor a two-light flat-faced mullion window, first floor GT 1842' window having decoratively-stopped hoodmould. Left bay: a two-light window on each floor, first floor window having hoodmould with terminals dated '18' '64'. Shaped kneelers, coping, finials.

Interior: barrel-vaulted cellars with stone tables. Central room (housebody) has chamfered fireplace with deep lintel inscribed '16 LAU DEO 38', cornice and timber relieving arch; chamfered spine-beams; to either side of fireplace a chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway and a similar doorway to outshut. Left room has large quoined basket-arched fireplace and doorway to housbody. First floor: a stop-chamfered ogee-arched fireplace to central room and another, Tudor-arched, with C19 grate. Former timber frame indicated by timbers between central and right rooms: a post rises from below, braced to tiebeam, the brace morticed for a post to the rail and the tiebeam with mortices for a studded wall.

The house was owned by members of the Waterhouse family in the C16 and until 1616; George Towne bought it in 1625 (Kendall pp.98-99). H P Kendall, "Ancient Halls of Norland", Halifax Antiquarian Society, vol 2 (1904), pp.93-1ll. RCHM(E) Report (31471).

Listing NGR: SE0721323028

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Legacy System number:: 339253
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.