Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse and Attached Barn
LOWER WOOD LANE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, WOOD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320268
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WOOD LANE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, WOOD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320268
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WOOD LANE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, WOOD 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:
- LOWER WOOD LANE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, WOOD LANE
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 04286 23737
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE WOOD LANE SE 0423 and SE 0523 (west side) , Sowerby 12/309 Lower Wood Lane 24.1.86 Farmhouse and attached barn - II Farmhouse and attached barn. House early-mid C17, barn mid C18. House of thin coursed rubble, barn of coursed squared stone; stone slate roofs. 2-storey, 3-bay house (2 first-floor windows) with 2-bay barn on right. House: quoins; double- chamfered mullion windows. To right of centre, gabled porch, rebuilt c1980, has a chamfered quoined doorway, the lintel dated 1630; round-arched slit windows to sides; and quoined inner doorway with deep lintel. To right and left of porch a 5-light window with 4-light window; ground-floor windows under hoodmoulds. Ridge stack to right of centre and another stack to left end, forward of ridge. Rear: a 2-light window flanked by 3-light windows. Left return: a 3-light window with hoodmould to gable. Barn to left of centre a round-arched cart-entry, bonded and with raised keystone and board doors; above it a Venetian window. To left a stable door with stone lintel. To right, at lower level, a doorway with plain stone surround. Rear: opposing cart-entry infilled; lean-to addition. Interiors: barn: in the house gable wall (on left) is a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; C19 queen post roof with raised purlins. House: later barrel-vaulted cellar with plain stone surround to window; wooden lintels to doors; raised beams, one in left room (removed from central room) having mortice in soffit for former partition. Between central and right-hand rooms are back-to-back C18 fireplaces with plain stone surrounds and cornices; similar fireplace to left-hand room. King-post roof, central tie-beam with mortices for former studs, left-hand truss having mortice to soffit of tie-beam for former partition/walling and struts. This and the front wall plate visible on first floor may indicate that the house originally had a timber frame or the presence of a former cross-wing.
Listing NGR: SE0428623737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339448
- 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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