Great Lear Ings
GREAT LEAR INGS, LEARINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265864
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great Lear Ings
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT LEAR INGS, LEARINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265864
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great Lear Ings
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT LEAR INGS, LEARINGS
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:
- GREAT LEAR INGS, LEARINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Heptonstall
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97005 28474
Details
SD 92NE HEPTONSTALL C.P. LEARINGS, SD 970284 Colden 7/103 Great Lear Ings
1.11.66
II
House (unoccupied), initialled and dated "1648 IIG". Hammer-dressed stone, rendered to south front, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room through-passage plan with 2-storey gabled porch and rear wing at right angles to housebody. Parlour has double chamfered mullioned window with cavetto moulding of 5 lights with same, only with single chamfer, to 1st floor; 2-light double chamfered mullioned window may be part of larger window of 8 lights blocked and rendered with 2 more lights before a 2-light fire-window, 8-light single chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor. All lack some mullions. Porch breaks forward and has scrolled plinth, Tudor arched doorway with cyma moulded surround (the lintel bearing date set within a tressure) and inner doorway has Tudor arched lintel, chamfered surround and broach-stop. 2-light window to porch chamber. Coped gable with kneelers. Continuous hoodmould also runs around porch. Decorative label stop to left of parlour window. Service end has 2 chamfered windows formerly of 2 lights with former 2-light and 3-light window over to 1st floor. Attached to either end are added C19 cells of no particular interest. Gable stacks to original house and one other backs onto through- passage. Rear has small chamfered light to left of through-passage doorway with Tudor arched lintel and unusually broad stop chamfered surround. Small 2-light window to 1st floor. Rear kitchen wing breaks forward. Coped gable with stack, now surmounted by ball finial, has carved stone to apex "G:G:160(4): [carved face]". Single storey aisle or outshut has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window to left of 2-light cavetto chamfered mullioned window. Interior not completely accessible. Some finely reeded spine beams and floor joists, plank and muntin panelling and king-post truss to rear wing at junction with main range. A fine house much abused by neglect. C.F. Stell, p.104, 105, 280, 287, 302.
Listing NGR: SD9700528474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 104-5, 280
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 287, 302
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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