Upper Snape (And Attached Barn)
UPPER SNAPE (AND ATTACHED BARN), MIREY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184781
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Snape (And Attached Barn)
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER SNAPE (AND ATTACHED BARN), MIREY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184781
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Snape (And Attached Barn)
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER SNAPE (AND ATTACHED BARN), MIREY 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:
- UPPER SNAPE (AND ATTACHED BARN), MIREY 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 02934 23441
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE MIREY LANE SE 0223 & SE 0323 (east side), Sowerby 11/133 Upper Snape ( and attached barn) 12.lO.78 (formerly listed separately) GV II Farmhouse and attached barn. House dated 'AH' '1677' with bay added probably mid C18; barn mid-late C18. Large blocks of coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. House 2 storeys, 3 bays with added bay on right from which projects 3-bay barn at right angles; house has outshut to rear left. House: plain-stone surround doorways to bays 1 and 2; on left of bay 2 a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway. Double-chamfered mullion windows on ground floor of 5 (now 3), 4 (now 2) and 2 (now 1) lights and a single-chamfered mullion window of 4 (now 2) lights; on 1st floor single-chamfered mullion windows of 4 (now 2), 4 (now 2), and 3 (now 2) lights. Ground-floor dripmould over door and flanking windows, the stops with initials and date. Kneeler and ashlar coping to left; 3 ridge stacks, that on left with capstone. Rear: quoins; outshut has a 9-light, now 5-light,window; a 2-light, now 1-light, window to left and 1st floor of left bay;
added bay on far left has two 2-light flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, those on ground floor blocked, the left-hand one above without mullion. Barn, gable end, has a plain stone surround doorway on left, and 2 windows, left one with cill lowered, right one an insertion. In right return a round-arched cart-entry with tiestones and raised keystone and a 2-light window above (mullion removed). Interior: house: in housebody a tall stone fireplace with chamfered lintel, probably C18; stop-chamfered spine beams, scarf-jointed indicating presence of former bressumer and firehood. In parlour: stone fire- place; 2 spine beams, one stop-chamfered, supported on stone corbels. Barn: two queen-post roof trusses.
Listing NGR: SE0293423441
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339276
- 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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