1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless
1 , 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS, WADSWORTH LANES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230442
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless
- Statutory Address:
- 1 , 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS, WADSWORTH LANES
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- Date:
- 1999-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/00879/15
- Rights:
- © Mr Norman Hurst. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230442
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 , 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS, WADSWORTH LANES
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:
- 1 , 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS, WADSWORTH LANES
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:
- SE0038327312
Details
SE 02 NW
SE 003273
2/273
HEBDEN ROYD C.P.
WADSWORTH LANES,
Hebden Bridge
No. 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless
II
Former meeting house and dayschool connected with the General Baptist movement
which now forms dwellings. Mid C18. Thin coursed stone, ashlar quoins, stone
slate roof. 3-storey gable fronts road. Wide gabled porch has doorway with
tie-stone jambs and arched window with chamfered surround. Over apex of porch
is former 2-light window with another to 2nd floor. Inscribed plaque reads:
"ORIGINAL MEETING
HOUSE OF
BIRCHCLIFFE BAPTIST
CHURCH, FOUNDED BY
REV DAN TAYLOR,
& OTHERS, A.D.1763"
Gable stack. Left hand return wall has evidence of former outside stair rising
to 1st floor door entry with tie-stone jambs, now blocked to form window. Right
hand return wall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st
and 2nd floors (both lacking 2 mullions). One other stack to ridge. The
attached 2-storey building to rear, with lower roofline, has paired doorways
with chamfered surround, with, to either side, former 6-light chamfered
mullioned windows. Over doorways is dated plaque inscribed " L J H
Harwood
1 7 5 2 "
Coped gable with kneelers and stack.
Interior of 3-storey house has removable floor boards at pulpit end to enable
people on different floors to see the preacher.
Listing NGR: SE0038327312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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