1, 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS

1 , 3 AND 5 UPPER NEEDLESS, WADSWORTH LANES

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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 , 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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 405359
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.