Upper Cockcroft
Upper Cockcroft, Long Causeway
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277194
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Cockcroft
- Statutory Address:
- Upper Cockcroft, Long Causeway
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277194
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Cockcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- Upper Cockcroft, Long Causeway
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:
- Upper Cockcroft, Long Causeway
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 02396 18091
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 024180
5/73
RIPPONDEN (former U.D.)
Rishworth
LONG CAUSEWAY (off)
Upper Cockcroft
(formedy listed under Rishworth)
15.8.66
GV
II*
House dated 1642 attached to Upper Cockcroft farmhouse,(q.v.). Ashlar, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Three-room through-passage plan with double-pile to rear of parlour and housebody, south front has twin gables to left of projecting two storey gabled porch. All are double chamfered mullioned windows with cyma moulded string course over ground floor windows (which have transomes) and hoodmould with decorated label stops over first floor windows. Twelve-light window with five-light window over to first floor. In the valley between gables which are coped with finials, is decorated stone inscribed "(?) BBES 1642". Twelve-light window with cross-fire-window. First floor has five-light window and arched light to left of porch which has rainwater spout to either side. Basket arched doorway with moulded surround, inner door has simple chamfer, first floor porch chamber has five-light ovolo moulded window with columbarium to apex which has finial. Service end has seven-light window with four-light window over to first floor to right of arched light. The rear has two gables to rear of double pile with other mullioned windows and finials to apex.
Interior: former service end is open to through passage which has wide stop chamfered floor joists. Wide segmental arched fireplace with joggled voussoirs has chamfered surround. Housebody has basket-arched fireplace with cyma moulded surround carried on crude columns, a unique feature in this district replacing a firehood (the evidence being the scarf jointed spine-beam). The former parlour has basket arched fireplace with joggled keystone. First floor has simple basket-arched fireplace with chamfered surround with fine plaster over mantel with heraldic devices set within two arcades initialled and dated "IB 1644". That to the housebody chamber has C18 fireplace with architrave and pulvinated moulded mantel-piece. King-post roof truss with "V" struts has half lap joint on principal rafter, possible evidence of reused timber from an earlier cruck-framed building.
Listing NGR: SE0239618091
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 414
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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