Well Bank House, Sycamore Cottage and 2 Well Bank Cottages
2, Well Bank Cottages, Midhope Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192651
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Well Bank House, Sycamore Cottage and 2 Well Bank Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Well Bank Cottages, Midhope Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192651
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Well Bank House, Sycamore Cottage and 2 Well Bank Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, Well Bank Cottages, Midhope Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
- Statutory Address 2:
- Well Bank House and Sycamore Cottage, Upper Midhope, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
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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:
- 2, Well Bank Cottages, Midhope Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
- Statutory Address:
- Well Bank House and Sycamore Cottage, Upper Midhope, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, S36 4GX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK2168599653
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 November 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
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BRADFIELD
UPPER MIDHOPE
Well Bank House and Sycamore Cottage, and MIDHOPE LANE, 2 Well Bank Cottages
(formerly listed as Wellbank Farmhouse including No, 1 Wellbank Cottage and Sycamore Cottage, UPPER MIDHOPE)
25/4/69
GV
II
Farmhouse now three dwellings. C17 with C18 and C19 additions. Partly cruck-framed, deeply-coursed, squared gritstone, stone slate roofs. Irregular L-shaped plan, main range two storeys with extensions and rear outshuts and a short projection beyond the junction with the one and a half storey front wing to right.
Main range: two storeys, five windows to first floor. Plinth, quoins. Door to far right, in short projection beyond front wing, has quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Rest of elevation within farmyard has two C17 bays to right with two ground floor four-pane sashes inserted in double-chamfered surrounds, sills altered, shared hoodmould. Two smaller sashes to first floor in similar altered surrounds. To left: two C18 bays with square-faced mullion windows. Central blocked door, now window,has bonded ashlar surround, three-light window to left, similar window to right now with board door inserted in two left lights. Band.
First floor: two-llight window to left, similar opening to right now sashed, mullion removed. To left a C19 bay: altered doorway to right and casement to each floor. Altered ridge stacks and end stack to right. To rear of C17 part: unaltered double-chamfered mullion windows to both floors, ground floor hood moulds, wood casements. Front wing: in left return, left part breaking forward has, to right, a door with quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Various double-chamfered mullion windows to each side, some altered.
Interior of front wing: not available for inspection. Cruck-frame and central inglenook fireplace visible. Also said to contain stone staircase and panelling.
Listing NGR: SK2168599653
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335443
- 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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