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Title: Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC01051
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Title
Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC01051
Description
Grade II
House, dated 1617. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. F-shaped plan, five divisions. First two formed by broad double-pile wing with two front gables and two-span roof. Plinth, cavetto moulded string course continues over ground floor windows. All are double chamfered mullioned windows most with lowered sills and new mullions, probably early C20. Four-light window with six-light mullion and transom window over. Early C20 gabled porch in keeping. Six-light window, with six-light mullioned and transomed window. Gables are coped with kneelers and ball finials with carved faces to apex stone. Projecting rainwater-spout has carved face. Set back is narrow tall mullioned and transomed window of six lights. Over is a single light. Gabled porch breaks forward, with depressed Tudor arched lintel inscribed with date, and elaborate moulded surround. First floor jetties out and has added carved heraldic tablet over which is six-light cruciform window with hoodmould with straight returns. Set back, two windows of two long lights over a two-light window. Right hand return wall has three-light original window with four-light window over and arched light to apex of gable which is coped with kneelers and ball finials. Attached is added wing dated 1933 in keeping.
Interior not inspected.
Illustrated in A. Comfort (1913)
NGR: SD 99834 23517
Historic England Listing No: 1230437
CMBC Ref: HR 1/266
House, dated 1617. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. F-shaped plan, five divisions. First two formed by broad double-pile wing with two front gables and two-span roof. Plinth, cavetto moulded string course continues over ground floor windows. All are double chamfered mullioned windows most with lowered sills and new mullions, probably early C20. Four-light window with six-light mullion and transom window over. Early C20 gabled porch in keeping. Six-light window, with six-light mullioned and transomed window. Gables are coped with kneelers and ball finials with carved faces to apex stone. Projecting rainwater-spout has carved face. Set back is narrow tall mullioned and transomed window of six lights. Over is a single light. Gabled porch breaks forward, with depressed Tudor arched lintel inscribed with date, and elaborate moulded surround. First floor jetties out and has added carved heraldic tablet over which is six-light cruciform window with hoodmould with straight returns. Set back, two windows of two long lights over a two-light window. Right hand return wall has three-light original window with four-light window over and arched light to apex of gable which is coped with kneelers and ball finials. Attached is added wing dated 1933 in keeping.
Interior not inspected.
Illustrated in A. Comfort (1913)
NGR: SD 99834 23517
Historic England Listing No: 1230437
CMBC Ref: HR 1/266
Date
1982
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale MBC
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC01051.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Old Cragg Hall, Swine Market Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC01051,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/36358.
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