Lower Hanging Shaw
LOWER HANGING SHAW, SOURHALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278553
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Hanging Shaw
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HANGING SHAW, SOURHALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278553
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Hanging Shaw
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HANGING SHAW, SOURHALL ROAD
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 HANGING SHAW, SOURHALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Todmorden
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 90685 24218
Details
SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) SOURHALL ROAD (OFF) SD 907241
5/269 Lower Hanging Shaw
II
Laithe house. Late C18 with added 2 bays on to barn and single cell onto house c.1840. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. Double-pile on plan under single- span roof. House has flat faced mullioned windows of 4 lights to each floor (lacking 2 mullions), quoins. Original gable entry with composite jambs and chamfered surround obscured by later extension which has doorway with monolithic jambs and 2-light broad flat faced mullioned window with same over. 2 stacks to ridge. To left hand end is barn with semi-circular arched cart entry set between buttresses c.1955, (stone from cellar at Higher Hanging Shaw). Interior of barn has 2 tall stone pointed arches and re-used beam with 2 half- lap joints. This house appears on a plan of 1808. A full set of deeds exists, the first dated 1585, possibly for a cruck framed structure.
Listing NGR: SD9068524218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405486
- 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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