Lane House and Attached Barn

LANE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, KIT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224814
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1965
List Entry Name:
Lane House and Attached Barn
Statutory Address:
LANE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, KIT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224814
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1965
List Entry Name:
Lane House and Attached Barn
Statutory Address 1:
LANE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, KIT LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LANE HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, KIT LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Silsden
National Grid Reference:
SE 03115 48578

Details

SE04NW SILSDEN C.P. KIT LANE (east side)

3/161 Lane House and attached barn.

27.9.65 II

House and attached barn. House has single-cell of early C17 with early C19 addition to right. Barn to left initialled and dated " IW Thin coursed rubble, dressed quoins, watershot masonry to C19 1672". addition, rubble to rear, stone slate roofs under 3 different roof lines. 2 storeys. Forms a long range. House has one bay of 3-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with almost square reveals. That to ground floor altered to 2-lights. Inserted doorway with monolithic jambs. C19 addition taller and has 2 bays of 16-paned sashed windows with plain stone surrounds with projecting sills. Set between, doorway with monolithic jambs. Stone gutter brackets. Stack to ridge of C17 cell at junction with barn. 2 stacks to ridge of C19 house. Rear has main feature of stair-window with semicircular-arched head with impost blocks and keystone. Quoins at division with earlier house which has single-chamfered light (to light stair) to left of 2-light chamfered mullioned window. Barn: 5 bays. Single-aisle which breaks forward and has cart-entry set within a portal of the aisle. This has large, curved, stop-chamfered wooden-lintel that may be a re-used cruck. Set within the right re-entrant angle a doorway with composite jambs and broad stop-chamfered surround, bears initials "I B" (Brown family) and "1784". Another similar doorway to right-hand end of aisle bears C17 date. Coped gable with kneelers to left gable. Rear, flush with house, has opposing cart-entry with composite jambs, monolithic lintel and chamfered surround (reduced in size).

Interior: Barn with principal truss with collar. House: on the east wall of the C17 cell is a painting dated 1689. The painting has a panel framed with columns and an arcaded frieze. The panel reads:

"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be ye kinde one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as GOD for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

To the right-hand side, the date 1689 is painted twice, together with an impression of the pelican in its piety. Above the panel, raised plaster letters read "I.W.M.W". The room also contains a fine newel spiral stone stair and elaborate stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists. May have been a Non-conformist meeting house after the Act of Toleration, 1689 the date of the painting.

Listing NGR: SE0311548578

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
418948
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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