Bent Head
BENT HEAD, WIDDOP ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226688
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bent Head
- Statutory Address:
- BENT HEAD, WIDDOP ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226688
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bent Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENT HEAD, WIDDOP ROAD
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:
- BENT HEAD, WIDDOP ROAD
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 96761 29526
Details
SD 92NE HEPTONSTALL C.P. WIDDOP ROAD SD 967295 Heptonstall
7/165 Bent Head
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G.V. II
House, early C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Front with single aisle to rear. 3-room through-passage plan. Ground floor windows are double chamfered mullioned, 1st floor windows have single chamfer. 2-light window with 3-light window over; simple gabled porch with coping and kneelers with chamfered surround, probably added early C18, protects doorway with cyma moulded surround; 3-light fire-window, 2-light window over, 6-light window with king mullion to housebody, 3-light window over; 5-light window to parlour, 4- light window over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has 3-light window to rear aisle and 3-light window with arched lights with sunken spandrels to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers and stack. 2 other stacks to ridge. One backs onto through passage. Rear has 2 windows of 2 lights with cavetto moulded surrounds and mullions. Through-passage doorway has deep stop chamfered surround. 4-light chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor of service end. Interior: Doorway leads directly into service end possibly formerly separated by a panelled screen. Housebody his oak panelled firescreen, moulded bressumer and heckpost which continues to tie-beam of king-post truss with diamond set ridge, reeded spine beams and floor joists; stone segmental arched fireplace with large skewbacks and stop chamfered surround. A fine example of a yeoman clothier's house which retains its fenestration and perhaps the best example of a bressumer which has a charm wedged in the joint of the heckpost known locally as a witch post. C.F. Stell, p.95, 261, 327, 328.
Listing NGR: SD9676129526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424101
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 95, 261
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 327-8
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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