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Title: Nos 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless, Wadsworth Lanes, Hebden Bridge - CBC01075
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Nos 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless, Wadsworth Lanes, Hebden Bridge - CBC01075
Description
Grade II
Former meeting house and dayschool connected with the General Baptist movement which now forms dwellings. Mid C18. Thin coursed stone, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 3-storey gable fronts road. Wide gabled porch has doorway with tie-stone jambs and arched window with chamfered surround. Over apex of porch is former 2-light window with another to 2nd floor. Inscribed plaque reads: "ORIGINAL MEETING HOUSE OF BIRCHCLIFFE BAPTIST CHURCH, FOUNDED BY REV DAN TAYLOR, & OTHERS, A.D.1763"
Gable stack. Left hand return wall has evidence of former outside stair rising to 1st floor door entry with tie-stone jambs, now blocked to form window. Right hand return wall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st and 2nd floors (both lacking 2 mullions). One other stack to ridge. The attached 2-storey building to rear, with lower roofline, has paired doorways with chamfered surround, with, to either side, former 6-light chamfered mullioned windows. Over doorways is dated plaque inscribed " L J H Harwood 1 7 5 2 " Coped gable with kneelers and stack. Interior of 3-storey house has removable floor boards at pulpit end to enable people on different floors to see the preacher.
NGR: SE 00383 27312
Historic England Listing No: 1230442
CMBC Ref: HR 1/273
Former meeting house and dayschool connected with the General Baptist movement which now forms dwellings. Mid C18. Thin coursed stone, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 3-storey gable fronts road. Wide gabled porch has doorway with tie-stone jambs and arched window with chamfered surround. Over apex of porch is former 2-light window with another to 2nd floor. Inscribed plaque reads: "ORIGINAL MEETING HOUSE OF BIRCHCLIFFE BAPTIST CHURCH, FOUNDED BY REV DAN TAYLOR, & OTHERS, A.D.1763"
Gable stack. Left hand return wall has evidence of former outside stair rising to 1st floor door entry with tie-stone jambs, now blocked to form window. Right hand return wall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st and 2nd floors (both lacking 2 mullions). One other stack to ridge. The attached 2-storey building to rear, with lower roofline, has paired doorways with chamfered surround, with, to either side, former 6-light chamfered mullioned windows. Over doorways is dated plaque inscribed " L J H Harwood 1 7 5 2 " Coped gable with kneelers and stack. Interior of 3-storey house has removable floor boards at pulpit end to enable people on different floors to see the preacher.
NGR: SE 00383 27312
Historic England Listing No: 1230442
CMBC Ref: HR 1/273
Date
1982
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale MBC
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC01075.jpg
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Citation
“Nos 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless, Wadsworth Lanes, Hebden Bridge - CBC01075,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/36382.
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