Old Cragg Hall
Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230437
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cragg Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market Lane
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230437
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cragg Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market 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.
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 Cragg Hall, Swine Market 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:
- SD9983423517
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9th February 2021 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards.
SD 92 SE
SD 998235
3/266
HEBDEN ROYD C.P.
Cragg Vale
(off) SWINE MARKET LANE,
Old Cragg Hall
(formerly listed as Cragg Old Hall)
19.7.63
II
House, dated 1617. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. F-shaped plan, five divisions. First two formed by broad double-pile wing with two front gables and two-span roof. Plinth, cavetto moulded string course continues over ground floor windows. All are double chamfered mullioned windows most with lowered sills and new mullions, probably early C20. Four-light window with six-light mullion and transom window over. Early C20 gabled porch in keeping. Six-light window, with six-light mullioned and transomed window. Gables are coped with kneelers and ball finials with carved faces to apex stone. Projecting rainwater-spout has carved face. Set back is narrow tall mullioned and transomed window of six lights. Over is a single light. Gabled porch breaks forward, with depressed Tudor arched lintel inscribed with date, and elaborate moulded surround. First floor jetties out and has added carved heraldic tablet over which is six-light cruciform window with hoodmould with straight returns. Set back, two windows of two long lights over a two-light window. Right hand return wall has three-light original window with four-light window over and arched light to apex of gable which is coped with kneelers and ball finials. Attached is added wing dated 1933 in keeping.
Interior not inspected.
Illustrated in A. Comfort (1913)
Listing NGR: SD9983423517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Comfort, A, Ancient Halls in and about Halifax, (1913), 25
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 74
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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