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Title: Bent Head, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02047
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Title
Bent Head, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02047
Description
Grade II
House, early C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Front with single aisle to rear. 3-room through-passage plan. Ground floor windows are double chamfered mullioned, 1st floor windows have single chamfer. 2-light window with 3-light window over; simple gabled porch with coping and kneelers with chamfered surround, probably added early C18, protects doorway with cyma moulded surround; 3-light fire-window, 2-light window over, 6-light window with king mullion to housebody, 3-light window over; 5-light window to parlour, 4- light window over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has 3-light window to rear aisle and 3-light window with arched lights with sunken spandrels to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers and stack. 2 other stacks to ridge. One backs onto through passage. Rear has 2 windows of 2 lights with cavetto moulded surrounds and mullions. Through-passage doorway has deep stop chamfered surround. 4-light chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor of service end. Interior: Doorway leads directly into service end possibly formerly separated by a panelled screen. Housebody his oak panelled firescreen, moulded bressumer and heckpost which continues to tie-beam of king-post truss with diamond set ridge, reeded spine beams and floor joists; stone segmental arched fireplace with large skewbacks and stop chamfered surround. A fine example of a yeoman clothier's house which retains its fenestration and perhaps the best example of a bressumer which has a charm wedged in the joint of the heckpost known locally as a witch post. C.F. Stell, p.95, 261, 327, 328.
NGR SD 96761 29526
Historic England List Entry Number 1226688
CMBC Ref H 165
House, early C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Front with single aisle to rear. 3-room through-passage plan. Ground floor windows are double chamfered mullioned, 1st floor windows have single chamfer. 2-light window with 3-light window over; simple gabled porch with coping and kneelers with chamfered surround, probably added early C18, protects doorway with cyma moulded surround; 3-light fire-window, 2-light window over, 6-light window with king mullion to housebody, 3-light window over; 5-light window to parlour, 4- light window over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has 3-light window to rear aisle and 3-light window with arched lights with sunken spandrels to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers and stack. 2 other stacks to ridge. One backs onto through passage. Rear has 2 windows of 2 lights with cavetto moulded surrounds and mullions. Through-passage doorway has deep stop chamfered surround. 4-light chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor of service end. Interior: Doorway leads directly into service end possibly formerly separated by a panelled screen. Housebody his oak panelled firescreen, moulded bressumer and heckpost which continues to tie-beam of king-post truss with diamond set ridge, reeded spine beams and floor joists; stone segmental arched fireplace with large skewbacks and stop chamfered surround. A fine example of a yeoman clothier's house which retains its fenestration and perhaps the best example of a bressumer which has a charm wedged in the joint of the heckpost known locally as a witch post. C.F. Stell, p.95, 261, 327, 328.
NGR SD 96761 29526
Historic England List Entry Number 1226688
CMBC Ref H 165
Date
2021-10-15T09:15:39
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale M.B.C.
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC02047.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Bent Head, Widdop Road, Heptonstall - CBC02047,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed May 4, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35593.
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