New Hey Farmhouse
NEW HEY FARMHOUSE, SLEDGE GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224249
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- New Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NEW HEY FARMHOUSE, SLEDGE GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224249
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Aug-2010
- List Entry Name:
- New Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW HEY FARMHOUSE, SLEDGE GATE
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:
- NEW HEY FARMHOUSE, SLEDGE GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0484215612
Details
391/1/449
11-JUL-85
SLEDGE GATE
SCAMMONDEN
(Off)
NEW HEY FARMHOUSE
(Formerly listed as:
SLEDGATE
SCAMMONDEN
NEW HEY)
II
GV
C17. Farmhouse, now residential activity centre.
MATERIALS: Hammer dressed millstone grit.
Millstone grit quoins. Very large plinthstones. Pitched stone slate roof. Millstone grit ridge. Chamfered copings. Moulded footstones. Ashlar stack with strings and chamfered coping and water tabling. Two storeys.
EXTERIOR
North East elevation: Ground floor: entrance with stone surround (later). Former original entrance with millstone grit lintel, chamfered reveals and large quoins (part blocked) and part of three-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered). Two six-light stone mullioned windows (double chamfered). First floor: one four-light stone mullioned window (chamfered); one three-light stone mullioned window(chamfered); one two-light stone mullioned window (chamfered).
South East gable: Ground floor: entrance with stone surround (later); one two-light stone mullioned window (chamfered). First floor: two openings (possibly former two light windows).
North West gable: Ground floor: one single light with chamfered stone surround; one two-light window with chamfered stone mullion.
INTERIOR
Original crude truss with collar missing.
HISTORY
New Hey farmhouse and barn date from at least 1693 (the date on a datestone on the barn), the land being farmed by the Holdsworth family for many years before it was taken over by the Water Authority during construction of Scammonden Dam in the 1960s. The farm was included in the lease of Scammonden Water Sailing Club in the 1960s but was disused until being taken over by the District Scout Council and converted to a residential outdoor centre.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
New Hey Farmhouse is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* The farm dates to the late C17
* Although the farmhouse has been converted for use by activity groups it survives relatively intact and retains a number of original features, such as roof trusses, plinthstones, and mullioned windows
* The farmhouse has group value with the associated barn to the North West (qv)
Grid Reference: SE 04842 15612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420017
- 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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