Great House and Great House Cottage
GREAT HOUSE AND GREAT HOUSE COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299333
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great House and Great House Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT HOUSE AND GREAT HOUSE COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299333
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great House and Great House Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT HOUSE AND GREAT HOUSE COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
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:
- GREAT HOUSE AND GREAT HOUSE COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 03043 26421
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (north side), Midgley 4/266 Great House and Great 15.11.66 House Cottage (formerly listed as Great House and barn) GV II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Mid C17, subdivided C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through passage and central rear service wing. 2 storeys, 2 bays with cross-wing on right. Double-chamfered mul- lion windows to ground floor and 1st floor of cross-wing, other 1st-floor windows single-chamfered. Bay 1 has C19 doorway in former window surround on left, 6-panel door in quoined, stop-chamfered, Tudor-arched surround on right, and on 1st floor a 3-light window and a round-arched light. Bay 2 has a 2-light fire window (mullion removed), a tall 5-light window and an inserted C19 doorway with a 3+2+3-light window above. Cross-wing has a 6-light, now 3-light, ground-floor window and a 6-light window above under hoodmould with heart stops. Continuous ground-floor dripmould, stepped at left end. Kneelers and ashlar coping to gables. End stack to left; ridge stack between bays 1 and 2 and to cross-wing; offset external stack to right of cross-wing. Rear: chamfered mullion windows unless otherwise stated. Cross-wing: on ground floor a blocked 3-light window and a single-light window with a 5-light double-chamfered mullion window under hood- mould above; ashlar coping; crocketed finial. Central, gabled wing: 4-light, now 2-light, ground-floor window; 6-light double-chamfered mullion window under hood- mould above; kneelers, ashlar coping; lateral stack on left; in left return on ground floor, windows of 3 and 2 lights linked by inserted window, 3-light window above; in right return, later doorway with tiestones and ledge on its left, plain gutter brackets. Bay 3: stop-chamfered quoined doorway to left of 5-light flat- faced mullion window (1 mullion removed, part blocked) with 3-light cavetto- moulded mullion window above; 2 chamfered gutter brackets. Right return: to left of stack an inserted C19 doorway under dripmould returned from front, with a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window above; to right of stack a small square light and a 2-light chamfered mullion window above (mullion removed). Interior: central housebody has bressummer beam on heck post with padstone, pegged mortice at base (possibly to take timber supporting a bench), and jowelled head; stop- chamfered spine beams; board door to rear wing with round-arched central panel and segmental-arched wooden lintel with roll moulding. RCHM report records that on both floors the left room is divided from rest of house and suggests it was a separate work and store room; it also records one king-post roof truss with verti- cal struts above passage. RCHM(E) Report (31447).
Listing NGR: SE0304326421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339398
- 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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