Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn
Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn, Old Town
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227304
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn
- Statutory Address:
- Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn, Old Town
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227304
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn, Old Town
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:
- Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn, Old Town
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99984 28282
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 March 2021 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards
SD 92NE
SD 999282
7/234
WADSWORTH C.P.
OLD TOWN
Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn
(formerly listed as Old Town Farmhouse)
1.11.66
G.V.
II
House dated 1637 with added early C19 barn. Large dressed stone, smaller coursed to barn, stone slate roof, blue slate to one side of roof. Two storeys. Hall-and-crosswing three-room plan with through passage. Gabled crosswing has copings, kneelers and crocketed finial to apex. Quoins. Ten-light C19 flat faced mullioned windows to three floors. Basement windows blocked. Right hand return wall of wing has doorway with lintel inscribed "1637 AG". Housebody has unusual stepped window with taller central light of seven lights with chamfered mullions. Through-passage doorway has composite jambs and chamfered surround. Single arched light over to first floor. Six-light window with four-light double chamfered mullioned window to first floor. Rear has through-passage doorway with large monolithic lintel and chamfered surround.
Attached is gabled building with columbarium to apex and two-light chamfered mullioned windows in north wall with taking-in door to first floor (blocked). Barn at right angles has stilted arched cart entry with simple Venetian window over.
Interior of barn has three bays with softwood queen-post trusses. Interior of house not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD9998428282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425016
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 287
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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