Description

SE 02SW RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) LANE HEAD ROAD (north
SE 033204 side), Ripponden

2/62 Nos 2/4 and 6 Lane Head
(formerly listed under
15.8.66 Lane Head Soyland)

GV II

House, late C17, altered to 3 cottages and now returned to one house. Ashlar,
thin coursed rubble to return walls and rear which have dressed quoins, stone
slate roof with coped gables with kneelers. 2 storeys. Double pile with 3-room
front with through passage. Plinth, string course over ground floor windows.
All windows are double chamfered mullioned: 5-light window with lowered sill
with 5-light over to 1st floor. Inserted doorway with recut door lintel
inscribed "1627 RF: MF". (Rachel Foxcroft, Michael Foxcroft). 6-light window
with lowered sill, 2-light fire-window, 8-light window over to 1st floor;
through-passage doorway with straight lintel with chamfered surround, with 3-
light window over to 1st floor; 8-light window with 4-light window over to 1st
floor. Right hand return wall has 3-light window to each floor. Rear has
chamfered mullioned windows of 4 and 5 lights either side of rear doorway with
composite jambs, 7-light window over to 1st floor. Double chamfered mullioned
windows of 3 and 4 lights either side of mullioned and transomed stair window of
6 lights. Gable stacks and one other back on to through-passage.

Interior: Wide through passage has inserted C17 oak staircse with finely turned
gun-barrel balusters reused from the Manor House, East Hardwick. Rear doorway
of passage has Tudor arched lintel with chamfered surround. Housebody has
scarf-jointed spine beams, evidence of former bressumer and C17 oak panelling
with carved frieze imported from Earlesheaton Hall, Dewsbury when it was
demolished. Rear stair in original position has dog-leg and reuses C17
staircase with finely turned gun-barrel balusters. The ground floor rooms have
widely spaced floor joists. The north parlour reuses a fine mid C16 oak
linenfold panelled door from Earlesheaton Hall, Dewsbury. It would appear that
the house of 1621 was of single depth and the internal wall of the later C17
double pile building belongs to the earlier build retaining its original Tudor
arched doorway to the rear of the through passage now forming an internal porch.
The east end of the house was unheated originally with its own ladder stair to
the upper chamber which did not communicate with the rest of the house. This
suggests that this end of the house was used for the storage or manufacture of
cloth in a wealthy yeoman-clothier's dwelling. RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE0334520492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525640

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)