Machpelah Works

MACHPELAH WORKS, MACHPELAH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229664
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Machpelah Works
Statutory Address:
MACHPELAH WORKS, MACHPELAH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229664
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Machpelah Works
Statutory Address 1:
MACHPELAH WORKS, MACHPELAH

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:
MACHPELAH WORKS, MACHPELAH

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 99515 27008

Details

SD 9927 HEBDEN ROYD C.P. MACHPELAH, Hebden Bridge 5/168 Machpelah Works

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G.V. II

Former fustian warehouse, c.1840, now cabinet-maker's workshop. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys to road. 4 storeys to rear which fronts canal. Continuous sill bands to each floor. 7-bay symmetrical facade. Doorway with architrave and Tudor arched lintel retains original 6-panelled door and panelled fanlight. Windows with skewback lintels to each bay and floor. Those to 1st and 2nd floors mainly retain original 30 paned windows with central 6 paned swivel openers. Eaves cornice. Attached to left hand return wall is added 2 single-storey bays for office in similar style with cyma moulded cornice and low-parapet. Rear has similar fenestration. Gable stacks on the return walls which have 2 bays of similar windows. Illustrated in C. Spencer, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (Hebden Bridge, no date), p.27.

Listing NGR: SD9951527008

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Legacy System number:
404457
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Spencer, C, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (), 27

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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