Stag Cottage and Basement Lock Up
STAG COTTAGE AND BASEMENT LOCK UP, 38, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226620
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stag Cottage and Basement Lock Up
- Statutory Address:
- STAG COTTAGE AND BASEMENT LOCK UP, 38, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226620
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stag Cottage and Basement Lock Up
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAG COTTAGE AND BASEMENT LOCK UP, 38, TOWN 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:
- STAG COTTAGE AND BASEMENT LOCK UP, 38, TOWN GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Heptonstall
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 98754 28073
Details
SD 9828SE HEPTONSTALL C.P. TOWN GATE (north side) Heptonstall
9/140 No. 38 (Stag Cottage) and basement lock up 1.11.66 (formerly listed as No 38 Town Gate) G.V. II
House, late C16 used as Calder Civic Trust headquarters. Large roughly dressed stone, stone slate roof. Gabled cross-wing and part of range flush with wing only remains. 2 storeys. Doorway with monolithic jambs inserted into former mullioned window the jambs of which survive. 3-light chamfered mullioned window over. 4-light chamfered mullioned window with arched lights and sunken spandrels with cavetto moulded mullions. Similar 3-light window over to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers and carved apex stone with crocketed finial. Interior: King-post truss with vertical struts retains wattle and daub infill. Straight brace to diagonally set ridge. Former wall plate has groove to its soffit. Basement visible from car park has doorway with monolithic jambs as entry to arched cellar used as lock-up or dungeon in the C19.
Listing NGR: SD9875428073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423911
- 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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