Higher Cragg

HIGHER CRAGG, CRAGG LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229275
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Cragg
Statutory Address:
HIGHER CRAGG, CRAGG LANE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229275
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Cragg
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER CRAGG, CRAGG LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHER CRAGG, CRAGG LANE

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Hebden Royd
National Grid Reference:
SE 00253 24599

Details

SE 02SW HEBDEN ROYD C.P. CRAGG LANE, SE 002246 Cragg Vale 4/98 Higher Cragg

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G.V. II House. Late C16. Large dressed stone, modern tile roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan. All are double chamfered mullioned windows with cavetto moulded mullions to south front. 4-light parlour window with 3-light window over. 5-light housebody window with 3-light window over. 3-light fire-window with 2-light over. 2-light window to service end. Left hand return wall has chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights to ground floor and 3 lights to 1st floor. Rear has chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights and 3 lights and pointed arched doorway (blocked to window) to rear wing now gone. Inserted doorway. Original baffle entrance is now obscured. Right hand return wall has 3-light chamfered mullioned window with same over, with, to either side, 2-light double chamfered mullioned windows. The roof has been raised and the stack removed. C. F. Stell, p.115-9, 233, 242.

Listing NGR: SE0025324599

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Legacy System number:
404116
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 115-119
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 233, 242

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Higher Cragg

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