Mytholmroyd Farmhouse
MYTHOLMROYD FARMHOUSE, SCOUT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230315
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Mytholmroyd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MYTHOLMROYD FARMHOUSE, SCOUT ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00994/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230315
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mytholmroyd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MYTHOLMROYD FARMHOUSE, SCOUT 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:
- MYTHOLMROYD FARMHOUSE, SCOUT ROAD
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 01235 25755
Details
SE 02NW HEBDEN ROYD C.P. SCOUT ROAD, (north side) SE 012257 Mytholmroyd 2/249 Mytholmroyd Farmhouse (formerly listed as St. George's Chapel of Rest 19.7.63 or Fold)
G.V. II*
House, with evidence of late medieval timber-frame rebuilt in stone, early to mid C17. Well coursed dressed stone, stone slate roof. 3-room plan with through-passage forms T-shape with projecting cross-wing flush with projecting housebody each under separate steeply pitched gable with kneelers and bases for finials with projecting rainwater-spout set in valley between. 2 storeys. Continuous hoodmould over ground floor windows has casement moulding and heart shaped stop to left hand end. lst floor windows have hoodmoulds with decorated stops. 1st cell has 2 chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights to service end; doorway with composite jambs has Tudor arched lintel and chamfered surround with 2-light double chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor. All other windows are double chamfered mullioned. 2-light fire-window; housebody breaks forward and has 7-light window with 10-light mullioned and transomed window over to 1st floor; inserted late C18 doorway with monolithic jambs; 6-light parlour window with 10-light mullioned and transomed window over to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has 3-light chamfered mullioned window to ground floor and 10-light double chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor; coped gable with kneelers, apex stone has carved fleur-de-lys. Rear has projecting wing to left with C18 doorway with monolithic jambs to left of 4-light chamfered mullioned window with 10-light mullioned and transomed window over to 1st floor. Rendered outshut of indeterminate date has 2 chamfered mullioned windows over to 1st floor. Similar through passage doorway to left of 2-light window and inserted C18 doorway. Right hand return wall has chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights and 3 lights and lateral stack with 2 diamond set flues. One other stack to ridge backs on to through passage. Interior: Housebody has large bressumer beam supported by post on stylobat with board and muntin panelled fire-screen which has triple reeded edges. Ceilings of housebody and parlour have finely reeded spine beams and floor joists. Parlour retains fireplace with stop chamfered jambs. Chamber over has similar Tudor arched fireplace with stop chamfered jambs. Large post with heavily jowled head survives from earlier timber framed house and supports king post truss with 10 "V" struts. Other king post trusses. Interior doorways are similar to through passage doorways. Prominent within the town. Illustrated in A. Comfort, Ancient Halls in and About Halifax, (1913) p.22. C. F. Stell, p.50, 51, 76.
Listing NGR: SE0123525755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Comfort, A, Ancient Halls in and about Halifax, (1913), 22
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 50, 51, 76
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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