34 and 36 Staups Lane
34 and 36, Staups Lane, Halifax, HX3 7AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261494
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 34 and 36 Staups Lane
- Statutory Address:
- 34 and 36, Staups Lane, Halifax, HX3 7AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261494
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 34 and 36 Staups Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34 and 36, Staups Lane, Halifax, HX3 7AB
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:
- 34 and 36, Staups Lane, Halifax, HX3 7AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10630 26389
Details
This list entry was subject to Minor Amendment on 01/07/2019
SE 12 NW
5/126
STAUPS LANE (east side)
Nos. 34 and 36
(Formerly listed as No. 34, Staups House, previously listed as No 34 (Staup's House and No 36 (Staup's Cottage)
03.11.54
GV
II*
Wool merchant's house. Dated 1684. Built for John Crowther. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Quoins and continuous ground floor band over windows. Two storeys.
Main west front has three gables with off-centre doorway approached up four curved steps. Wooden panelled door with round-headed moulded ashlar door surround topped with stone plaque originally inscribed "IC 1684". To left a single six-light deeply-chamfered cross-mullion window and to right two similar eight-light cross-mullion windows both with slightly thicker central mullions. Above a three-light mullion window in deeply chamfered surround over the doorway, flanked by single cross-mullion windows with five-lights below and three-lights above, plus a single similar window to right, all in deeply chamfered surrounds with hood-moulds. Left return has blank re-built wall where a fourth gabled wing has been demolished. Right return has blocked two-light cross casement window in deeply chamfered surround with hood-mould and a former five-light mullion window, above a similar two-light window. Rear has later extensions and a single five-light mullion window.
INTERIOR has lobby entry plan-form, with a fine single flight late-seventeenth staircase with bulbous turned balusters and square newels with ball finials. Central room has large moulded ashlar fire surround reputedly moved here from nearby Shibden Hall, north room has four-centred-arched moulded ashlar fire surround with flanking former cupboards. Chamfered beams. Seventeenth century plank doors and some eighteenth century panel doors. Some rooms have fragments of original panelling and cupboards. Seventeenth century partly exposed roof structure.
Listing NGR: SE1063026389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437393
- 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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