Bell House

BELL HOUSE, HESELTINE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229494
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Bell House
Statutory Address:
BELL HOUSE, HESELTINE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229494
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Bell House
Statutory Address 1:
BELL HOUSE, HESELTINE 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BELL HOUSE, HESELTINE 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:
SD 99612 24647

Details

SD 92SE DEN ROYD C.P. (off) HESELTINE LANE, SD 996246 Cragg Vale 3/148 Bell House

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- II

House mid C17 with added outshut to rear mid C18. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South-east facing front'of 2 cells. 1st cell has doorway forming a baffle entry against heck. Tudor-arched lintel with composite jambs and stop chamfered surround. All are chamfered mullioned windows with the mullions flush with front of wall. 4-light window with same, though shorter, over. 2nd cell has 3-light window with same over. Left hand return wall is blind and carries stack. Rear has 2-light window to right of outshut and arched light with sunken spandrels to left. Right hand return wall has 2-light window to both floors. Attached is outbuilding with mono-pitched roof and 4-light window. Interior of housebody has bressumer beam. Heck has curving brace to roof. Part of fire-hood is preserved at 1st floor. The home of leader of the Cragg Coiners, "King" David Hartley who was executed at York in 1770 but is buried in Heptonstall grave-yard. C. F. Stell, p.155-6, 329, 330.

Listing NGR: SD9962524632

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
404317
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 155-6
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 329, 330

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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