NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE

NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE, NORLAND TOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313754
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE, NORLAND TOWN ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-11
Reference:: IOE01/00588/28
Rights:: © Mr Robert W Mawer. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313754
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE, NORLAND TOWN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORLAND TOWN HOUSE AND THE COTTAGE, NORLAND TOWN ROAD

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 06990 22931

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE NORLAND TOWN ROAD SE 0622-0722 (south side), Norland 16/148 Norland Town House and The Cottage 15.11.66 - II House, part now separate cottage. C17, of several builds , with C16 core. Coursed squared stone with timber-framed core; stone slate roof. Hall with cross-wings, aisled to rear (north) and with wing added to front (south). 2 storeys, 4 bays. Garden, (south) front: 3 gables, the left one 2-bay and with eaves lower on right. Left wing: plinth. Double-chamfered mullion windows, on ground floor of 4-lights, 9-lights with king mullion, and 3 lights (now door) under continuous dripmould; on first floor of 3 lights and 6 lights with king mullion each under a dripmould, with arched light to right. Break in masonry between this and next bay which has: chamfered doorway with tiestones, now window, on left of 4-light, now 2-light, double-chamfered window under roundel-stopped hoodmould with similar 2-light window above under heart-and-lozenge-stopped hoodmould. Right wing, breaking forward, has 3-light chamfered window with similar 2 + 3 light window above (mullions removed). c1980 lean-to porch to ground floor right. Rainwater spouts between gables; kneelers; moulded coping; finial bases. Rebuilt stack to right of bay 3, 2 others to right end of ridge of hall behind, one rebuilt the other truncated; one to ridge of right wing, and one to left of ridge of bays 1/2, the latter corniced and with diamond-set flues. Rear: left wing: a 3-light chamfered window; inserted window above. Hall: moulded basket-arched doorway with ogee-moulding to lintel; small 2-light chamfered fire window; 9-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window with king mullions; roof comes down low over aisle. Right wing: inserted window and stop-chamfered door on right. Left return: a 3 + 3 light single-chamfered window to left; a 4-light now 2-light double-chamfered mullion window above; a chamfered arched light to first floor right with a rainwater spout to its right. Right return: a 4-light double-chamfered mullion window to ground floor left and surround of another to right. Interior: hall: large C17 moulded segmental-arched fireplace; arcade posts with curved braces to plate; on left (west) original closing truss has mid rail with close studding above and curved braces; collar rafter roof with two queen strut trusses, the central truss having tie-beam with moulded soffit. Left (west) wing reported to have panelling to front (south) ground floor room, chamfered cross-beams and central truss with heavily-jowled posts, cambered tie-beam with morticed soffit for former partition and king post (RCHM). H P Kendall, Ancient Halls of Norland', Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 2, 1904, pp p93-111. RCHM(E) report (31469).

Listing NGR: SE0699022931

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Legacy System number:: 339290
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.