Lower Spark House Farmhouse
LOWER SPARK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 47, 49 AND 53, SPARK HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185880
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Spark House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SPARK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 47, 49 AND 53, SPARK HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185880
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Spark House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SPARK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 47, 49 AND 53, SPARK 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:
- LOWER SPARK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 47, 49 AND 53, SPARK 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 06575 23304
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE SPARK HOUSE LANE SE 0623-0723 (north side), Norland 13/236 Nos 47, 49 and 53 15.11.66 (Lower Spark House Farmhouse) (formerly listed as Lower Spark House) GV II Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings. Dated 'IT 1677', subdivided and altered C19, and with alterations and wing added c1980. Coursed squared stone, rendered at front; stone slate roof. 2-storey, 2-bay range with cross-wing on left which has been extended to rear. Road front: quoins exposed on right. Double-chamfered mullion windows. Wing has outshut on left, on ground floor an 8-light, now 4-light, window with king mullion and decoratively stopped hoodmould. Main range has chamfered quoined doorway with round-cornered soffit to dated lintel; to its left is a triangular-headed window; to its right a 4-light, now 2-light, window with decoratively-stopped hoodmould flanked by chamfered square lights. On lst floor a 3-light window to left and 5-light window to right. At eaves between this range and wing a gutter spout. Roof hipped to right. Ridge stack between wing and main range and on hip. Left return: outshut has quoins on left and a 5-light window (one mullion removed, 3 lights blocked). To left is the c1980 extension in same style and with stepped roof line. Right return: 2 doorways with plain stone surrounds and an inserted window. Interior: a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway into housebody (central room) which has a large arched fireplace (hidden), stop-chamfered spine-beams and a partition in the position of a heck screen. The initials 'IT' may stand for a member of the Taylor family - Norland Hall (qv) was refronted in 1672 by Joseph Taylor and Upper Hall, Norland (qv) was built in 1690 by John Taylor of Norland Hall. L Ambler The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire.
Listing NGR: SE0657523304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913)
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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