Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, PARIS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313594
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, PARIS ROAD
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- Date:
- 2000-08-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/01519/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313594
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, PARIS 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:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, PARIS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme Valley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 15837 07558
Details
SE 10 NE PARIS ROAD 5/254 (Scholes)
Town Head Farmhouse and adjoining cottage
II
Farmhouse and adjoining cottage. Early to mid C.18. Hammer dressed stone, with very deeply coursed millstone grit to north gable. Quoins. Stone slate roof with gable copings on moulded kneelers. Formerly 2 good ashlar stacks with mouldings, one now truncated. Two storeys. West elevation: two 4-light chamfered and recessed stone mullioned window to each floor. Ground floor: window to left altered to take doorway. Central first floor 3-light window. To right is slightly later addition, Town Head cottage, with recent single storey extension. East elevation is altered but includes one 4-light chamfered and recessed windows.
Listing NGR: SE1583707558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340481
- 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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