Lacey Hey Cottage Lacey Hey Farmhouse
LACEY HEY COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313772
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lacey Hey Cottage Lacey Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LACEY HEY COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313772
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lacey Hey Cottage Lacey Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LACEY HEY COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LACEY HEY FARMHOUSE, 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:
- LACEY HEY COTTAGE, TOWN GATE
- Statutory Address:
- LACEY HEY FARMHOUSE, 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 02922 26345
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (south side), Midgley 4/256 Lacey Hey Farmhouse and 15.11.66 Lacey Hey Cottage - II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably mid C17 with reset datestone "RW/1672"; restored and altered c.1978. Thinly-coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 cells (5 1st-floor windows) formerly with through-passage; outshut to rear right; early C18 wing to rear centre demolished and replaced by c.1978 outshut; left bay extended to rear c.1978. south (garden) front: chamfered plinth, quoins. Quoined doorway to right of left-hand cell, formerly in gabled porch, the date- stone from which has been reset over doorway. Windows are double-chamfered mul- lioned on ground floor, single-chamfered mullion above, to 1st cell of 9 lights (2 mullions removed on ground floor, 4 lights and 2 lights above; to 2nd cell of 9 lights with transom and king mullions to ground floor, 2 lights and 4 lights above; to 3rd cell of 6 lights with transom and king mullion to ground floor, 5 lights above. Continuous dripmould, stepped at doorway. 2nd cell was heightened for farm use C19 but following collapse of roof was reinstated as it now is c.1978. Shaped kneelers, coping. End stack to right; ridge stack between lst and 2nd cells and another near left end, both c.1978. Added pent porch at right end. Rear: C17 outshut: doorway on left has chamfered arch-cut lintel; double-chamfered mullion windows, of 2 lights (mullion removed) and 4 lights to right of door, and of 2 lights to left of c.1978 door. Central C20 outshut reuses C18 mullion windows. On right, gabled wing built out c.1978. Left return: a blocked 3-light double-chamfered mullion window under hoodmould. Right return: on left, dripmould is returned from front as string terminating in carved stop; above it a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion window; to outshut a 3-light double-cham- fered mullion window with a 2-light chamfered mullion window above. Interior: central housebody has a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway; kitchen on right has stop-chamfered spine-teams; on lst floor one stop-chamfered quoined doorway and between the outshut and main range one beam with grooved soffit, pro- bably for a former partition wall; some roof timbers replaced.
Listing NGR: SE0292226345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339388
- 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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