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4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard

4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard, Rochdale Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277094
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard
Statutory Address:: 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard, Rochdale Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277094
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard
Statutory Address 1:: 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard, Rochdale Road

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:: 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews and Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard, Rochdale Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Ripponden
National Grid Reference:: SE 02644 18888

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 March 2021 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards

SE 01NW SE 026188 5/133

RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) (off) ROCHDALE ROAD (south side) Nos 4, 5, 6 Swift Place, Swift Mews & Swift Cottage and gate piers in inner courtyard

(formerly listed as Swift Place and gate piers in inner courtyard)

15.8.66

II* House, dated 1626 with addition of rear courtyard block dated 1698 and added wing dated 1704 when the courtyard was enclosed and it is probable that the present staircase was inserted. Ashlar, stone slate roof. Two storeys and basement to west wing which has weathered plinth which steps over chamfered light and four-light double chamfered mullioned window to basement. Ground floor has four-light chamfered mullioned window to side aisle set under wide gable. Five-light double chamfered mullioned window (lacks two mullions) is sashed. Over, to first floor, are two sashed windows with architraves set in the gable. Three gables all with coping and ball finials to apex, kneelers and valleys Inserted doorway has pointed arched lintel to left of double chamfered mullioned window altered to two sashes with same over to first floor with hoodmould with circular stop. Former fire-window to left of date stone inscribed '(The Hoyle Family). /ESH/1704' Eight-light mullioned and transomed window with same over to first floor. Break in stonework at junction with added wing which has two double chamfered mullioned cross windows to each floor and gable stack. Rear forms enclosed courtyard with an excellent pair of tall ashlar gate piers c.1704 with rusticated pilasters and pulvinated friezes, cyma moulded cornices, surmounted by ball finials.

Rear of house has two coped gables with finials and mullioned and transomed windows with tall inserted stair window with architrave. To left, doorway with shallow arch has inscribed lintel dated 1626. Facing this range another of two storeys with chamfered mullioned windows and doorway with cyma moulded surround the lintel inscribed " H " set within a tressure. Linking block has '16E S98' similar doorway and another with basket arched lintel. Cross window and columbarium.

Interior preserves two fireplaces of high quality masonry. One in Swift Mews has been imported and has shallow Tudor arch and elaborate moulded suround, with detached fluted Corinthian columns, entablature and moulded cornice. No 6, the former parlour wing, has Tudor arched fireplace with carved shields set in sunken spandrels, cyma moulded surround with decorated lintel flanked by tall fluted Doric pilasters with faces carved on the pedestals. Full entablature enriched by fluting and roundels. Dog-leg stair with raised and fielded dado panelling. King post roof with "V" struts.

A house of some distinction added to at various dates with the rear buildings probably used for textile manufacture.

Listing NGR: SE0264418888

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 407769
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 494

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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.