Birks and Barn
BIRKS AND BARN, 1, TYLAS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266692
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Birks and Barn
- Statutory Address:
- BIRKS AND BARN, 1, TYLAS LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-05-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/04216/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266692
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Birks and Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRKS AND BARN, 1, TYLAS 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:
- BIRKS AND BARN, 1, TYLAS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05862 14554
Details
SE 01 SE TYLAS LANE Slaithwaite 5/481 No 1 - Birks and Barn
- II
Early C18. Part altered. House, barn and former cottage now barn. Millstone grit/ hammer dressed stone and rubble. Plinth. Pitched stone slate roof. Old ashlar chimney to east barn with tabling. 1/2 storeys. House: South East elevation: Ground floor; One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered) (2 mullions removed). First floor; One 5-light stone mullioned window, (early C19). North West elevation: Blocked door with large lintel. Pitched one storey extension. South East barn: single storey (former cottage). South East elevation: Door with large chamfered lintel (probably original door). Sill has water drainage channels. One modern barn door. One 4-light stone mullioned window (double chamfered). South West elevation: Ground and attic levels each have one 2-light stone mullioned window (ground floor window blocked and part concealed below ground level). North West elevation: One 6-light stone mullioned window (2 mullions removed) (2 lights blocked). Interior: The barn is of cruck construction. There is a single cruck truss with pegged joints. One blade is on a stone footing, the other is set into the wall. The tie beam has been removed but there is a collar and two large purlins and ridge beam. At the east gable of the barn is an impressive chimney with monolithic chamfered lintel and stone quoins. It has stepped breast. The chimney indicates that the cruck building could have originally been used for domestic purposes. South West barn: Small door with large lintel. Barn door with quoins and rounded corbels supporting large lintel. Lean-to on west side with first floor small windows with tabled sill. There are several small holes drilled into quoins along the south elevation of the building for apparatus used in the drying of wool: "Wuzzing".
Listing NGR: SE0586214554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420635
- 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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