Wadsworth Banks Farmhouse
WADSWORTH BANKS FARMHOUSE, RAW LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278733
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Wadsworth Banks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WADSWORTH BANKS FARMHOUSE, RAW LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-11-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/00890/10
- Rights:
- © Mr Norman Hurst. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278733
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wadsworth Banks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADSWORTH BANKS FARMHOUSE, RAW 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:
- WADSWORTH BANKS FARMHOUSE, RAW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hebden Royd
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 01508 26763
Details
SE 02NW EBDEN ROYD C.P. RAW LANE, SE 015267 Mytholmroyd 2/219 Wadsworth Banks Farmhouse (formerly listed as No. 2 Banks Cottages) 19.7.63
G.V. II*
House, late medieval timber framed house the timber mostly replaced in stone at different phases early to late C17. Now forms L-shaped plan with projecting cross-wing. Large dressed stone to front, hammer dressed stone to sides and rear, blue slate roof. 2 storeys. Cross-wing has plinth, impressive 18-light parlour window, double chamfered mullioned and transomed with 2 king mullions with hoodmould over with decorative stops. Over, to 1st floor, the same but without label stops. Coped gable with kneelers and finial. Right hand return wall has-double chamfered mullioned cross-window with 2-light window over. Hall range has double chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor and chamfered mullioned to 1st floor. 8-light window with king mullion with 6-light window over. 4-light window with 3-light window over. Break in stonework. 3-light window with, to either side 2-light windows with continuous hoodmould over with decorative label stops. 4-light window over to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers. Left hand return wall of cross-wing has double chamfered mullioned window to rear dairy of 6 lights next to inserted C19 doorway with monolithic jambs. Chamfered mullioned window of 3 lights over to 1st floor. Rear of cross-wing has double chamfered mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights. String course. Impressive 12-light mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould with decorative label stops. Coped gable with kneelers which have bases for finials. Rear of hall range is single-storey under added outshut, probably late C18 with segmental arched entry with keystone and impost to left of former 5-light thin flat faced mullioned window. 2 stacks to ridge of hall range, one other to cross-wing. Interior of-hall range preserves a close studded timber-framed wall with arched braces and heavily jowled head to post on stylobat. The ground floor. has a board and muntin division wall with sill beam on a stone footing. One face of the panelling has muntins with roll moulding of high quality dating from the late C15. A very rare and important survival. C. F. Stell, p.39-43, 279, 280, 282.
Listing NGR: SE0150826763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405052
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 39-43
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 279, 280
Stell, C F, Vernacular Architecture in a Pennine Community, (1960), 282
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 22-Jun-2026 at 14:13:07.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.