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Title: Acre Farmhouse, attached Acre House and Mounting Block; also Barn 10 metres NW of Acre Farmhouse, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02044
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Title
Acre Farmhouse, attached Acre House and Mounting Block; also Barn 10 metres NW of Acre Farmhouse, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02044
Description
Grade II
House, c.1700 with mid C18 rear wing and addition in ashlar to front. Now forms 2 residences. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan. Attached at right angles to service end is added kitchen with lean-to roof with tall dressed stack to rear and chamfered stepped window of 2 over 3 lights. Attached to front of this building is mounting block formed by 5 steps to either side. Over service end is 4-light chamfered mullioned window. Doorway has segmental arched lintel and cyma-moulded surround. Double chamfered mullioned windows, without hoodmould, of 6 lights with 5 lights over to 1st floor, and 5 lights with same over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has stairwindow with plain stone surround at mezzanine level. Rear wing has former 6-light flat- faced mullioned windows to each floor now altered to form 2 wide lights. 3 stacks, coped gables with kneelers. Interior of housebody has contemporary segmental arched fireplace, the lintel carried on corbelled jambs with cyma moulded surround. Dog-leg stair has finely turned balusters, ramped handrail, close string with pulvinated panel and raised and fielded panels. Ceiling over stairs has decorative plaster boss. Plaster panelled ceiling to parlour has 2 central circular features. All these latter features are probably mid C19 improvements.
Barn, late C17, new roof structure mid C20. Large hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Single aisled. Cart entry has monolithic lintel, composite jambs and chamfered surround. Similar mistal doorway to right at lower level. Coped gables with kneelers. An adjacent C19 stable has a re-used datestone inscribed 1672 from an earlier building. It is possible the barn was contemporary with it. Included for group value only.
NGR SD 97212 29234 and SD 97202 29238
CMBC Ref H 162 and 163
Historic England List Entry Numbers 1226786 1265718
House, c.1700 with mid C18 rear wing and addition in ashlar to front. Now forms 2 residences. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan. Attached at right angles to service end is added kitchen with lean-to roof with tall dressed stack to rear and chamfered stepped window of 2 over 3 lights. Attached to front of this building is mounting block formed by 5 steps to either side. Over service end is 4-light chamfered mullioned window. Doorway has segmental arched lintel and cyma-moulded surround. Double chamfered mullioned windows, without hoodmould, of 6 lights with 5 lights over to 1st floor, and 5 lights with same over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has stairwindow with plain stone surround at mezzanine level. Rear wing has former 6-light flat- faced mullioned windows to each floor now altered to form 2 wide lights. 3 stacks, coped gables with kneelers. Interior of housebody has contemporary segmental arched fireplace, the lintel carried on corbelled jambs with cyma moulded surround. Dog-leg stair has finely turned balusters, ramped handrail, close string with pulvinated panel and raised and fielded panels. Ceiling over stairs has decorative plaster boss. Plaster panelled ceiling to parlour has 2 central circular features. All these latter features are probably mid C19 improvements.
Barn, late C17, new roof structure mid C20. Large hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Single aisled. Cart entry has monolithic lintel, composite jambs and chamfered surround. Similar mistal doorway to right at lower level. Coped gables with kneelers. An adjacent C19 stable has a re-used datestone inscribed 1672 from an earlier building. It is possible the barn was contemporary with it. Included for group value only.
NGR SD 97212 29234 and SD 97202 29238
CMBC Ref H 162 and 163
Historic England List Entry Numbers 1226786 1265718
Date
2021-10-15T09:14:22
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale M.B.C.
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC02044.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Acre Farmhouse, attached Acre House and Mounting Block; also Barn 10 metres NW of Acre Farmhouse, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02044,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed May 3, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35590.
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