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Title: Hebden Bridge Houses - DEF00205
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Hebden Bridge Houses - DEF00205
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Montrose Buildings, Lee View & Illingworth Villas, Lee Mill Road, Hebden Bridge.
A good example of the famous Hebden Bridge "Top & Bottom" houses, it can be seen from the differing paintwork that the top 2 storeys are in seperate ownership to the lower 2 storeys. The Bottom houses are built back to earth with no windows or ventilation at the rear other than a coal shute to a cellar behind the small and rather airless kitchen. The top house is entered via a doorway from the street behind, a contour higher up the steep hillside. The coal cellar for the top house was often back to back with the bedroom of the bottom house! Many of these houses were domolished as slums in the 1960's clearances. Those that remain today and have been improved make up about 25% of homes in the town.
A good example of the famous Hebden Bridge "Top & Bottom" houses, it can be seen from the differing paintwork that the top 2 storeys are in seperate ownership to the lower 2 storeys. The Bottom houses are built back to earth with no windows or ventilation at the rear other than a coal shute to a cellar behind the small and rather airless kitchen. The top house is entered via a doorway from the street behind, a contour higher up the steep hillside. The coal cellar for the top house was often back to back with the bedroom of the bottom house! Many of these houses were domolished as slums in the 1960's clearances. Those that remain today and have been improved make up about 25% of homes in the town.
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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PHDA - David Fletcher Collection
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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DEF00205.tif
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Unknown, “Hebden Bridge Houses - DEF00205,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/23123.
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