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Title: 53 and attached Wall (containing former gateway to churchyard), Town Gate, Heptonstall - CBC02023
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53 and attached Wall (containing former gateway to churchyard), Town Gate, Heptonstall - CBC02023
Description
Grade II
Pair of cottages, late C18, now forms a single house. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Fronts road. Quoins. Centrally placed flat-faced mullioned window of 5 lights with wider central light. To either side doorways with monolithic jamb to corner and other tie-stone jamb. 3-light window and 2- light window to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has 2-light window to apex and gable stack. Rear front to churchyard. 5-light flat-faced mullioned window with wide lights altered mid C20. 3-light and 2-light window to 1st floor. Attached to east is wall in dressed stone with ovolo moulded coping containing remains of gateway (blocked), lintel and one composite jamb survive with moulded surround. This formerly gave access to churchyard opposite the north door to the Church of St. Thomas à Becket (q.v.). Probably contemporary with gateway attached to Heptonstall Grammar School which is dated 1765 (q.v.).
NGR SD 98675 28097
CMBC Ref H 154
Historic England List Entry Number 1249686
Pair of cottages, late C18, now forms a single house. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Fronts road. Quoins. Centrally placed flat-faced mullioned window of 5 lights with wider central light. To either side doorways with monolithic jamb to corner and other tie-stone jamb. 3-light window and 2- light window to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has 2-light window to apex and gable stack. Rear front to churchyard. 5-light flat-faced mullioned window with wide lights altered mid C20. 3-light and 2-light window to 1st floor. Attached to east is wall in dressed stone with ovolo moulded coping containing remains of gateway (blocked), lintel and one composite jamb survive with moulded surround. This formerly gave access to churchyard opposite the north door to the Church of St. Thomas à Becket (q.v.). Probably contemporary with gateway attached to Heptonstall Grammar School which is dated 1765 (q.v.).
NGR SD 98675 28097
CMBC Ref H 154
Historic England List Entry Number 1249686
Date
2021-10-15T09:09:32
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale M.B.C.
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC02023.jpg
Collection
Citation
“53 and attached Wall (containing former gateway to churchyard), Town Gate, Heptonstall - CBC02023,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35569.
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