HIGGIN

HIGGIN, 1-4, SOWERBY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185558
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: HIGGIN
Statutory Address:: HIGGIN, 1-4, SOWERBY LANE

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Date:: 2006-06-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185558
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: HIGGIN
Statutory Address 1:: HIGGIN, 1-4, SOWERBY LANE

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:: HIGGIN, 1-4, SOWERBY 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 03500 24148

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY LANE SE 0224 & SE 0324 (west side), 8/221 Boulder Clpugh 15.11.66 Nos 1 - 4 Higgin (formerly listed as Higgin) - II

House and added cottage, now 3 dwellings. C17 with late C18-early C19 cottage. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys; 2 bays with through passage, cross wing on left, wing projecting from rear left and cottage (No 2) added to rear right. Windows are single-chamfered mullioned to lst floor of main range, otherwise double-chamfered mullioned. South front, main range: on left of right bay a half-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround with deep lintel. To left a small 2-light fire window and beyond that an 8-light (now 4-light) window with king mullion under dripmould with heartstop on right and left stop removed. To right of door a 2-light window with mullion removed and a similar window converted to a doorway, under continuous dripmould with heartstops. On lst floor two 3-light windows to each bay, left pair with renewed mullions, right pair without mullions and with cemented cills. Shaped kneeler and coping to right; ridge stack. Crosswing: a 5-light, now 2-light window with door inserted to right and a 4-light, now 2-light, window above; gable coping; ridge stack. Rear: through- passage doorway has chamfered, quoined, surround; inserted window above. Wing projecting to right of this has added porch, renewed flat-faced mullions to ground-floor window, 2 inserted windows above and gable coping; in its right return is a gutter spout; in is left return a 6-light window, mullions removed and replaced as a 5-light window, under dripmould with a circle and a heartstop and above it a 4-light, now 2-light, window. Crosswing has added outshut and former 3-light window above. Cottage projecting on left has added privy range (not of special interest) with a blocked light to right and 2-light flat-faced mullion window above; eaves stack on right. Left return (crosswing): a 5-light flat-faced mullion window to ground floor; 4-light window above. Right return: main range has ground-floor windows of 4 lights (mullions removed) and 2 lights under decoratively-stopped hoodmould and a lst-floor window of 4 round-arched lights. Cottage on right has quoins, C20 door in plain stone surround to right of flat-faced mullion window (mullions removed) with similar 5-light, now 3-light, window above. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE0350024148

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Legacy System number:: 339349
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.