Lower Purprice
LOWER PURPRICE, PURPRICE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265382
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Purprice
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER PURPRICE, PURPRICE LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/10342/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265382
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Purprice
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER PURPRICE, PURPRICE 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:
- LOWER PURPRICE, PURPRICE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99144 29914
Details
SD 92NE WADSWORTH C;P. PURPRISE LANE SD 991299
7/251 Lower Purprice (formerly listed as Purprice) 1.11.66
G.V. II
House, 2nd half C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Copings with kneelers and diamond shaped finials to gables and porch. 2 storeys. 2 cells. All are double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds with straight returns to ground floor and chamfered mullioned to 1st floor. Fine porch has basket- arched doorway with chamfered surround and 2-light window to apex of gable. Inner door has straight lintel and chamfered surround. 6-light window, 4-light window over; 5-light window. Left hand return wall has 5-light window (lacking a mullion) and 2-light chamfered mullioned window. Rainwater spout in former valley to rear wing now demolished. Right hand return wall has 4-light window (blocked) and 3-light window with arched lights, sunken spandrels and cavetto moulded mullions. Interior: Segmental arched fireplace with cyma moulded surround and shelf. Stop chamfered spine beams. Doorway in south wall to demolished wing has straight lintel and chamfered surround. C.F. Stell, p.153, 154, 290.
Listing NGR: SD9914429914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 153-4, 290
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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