Description

LEEDS

SE2534 HOUGHLEY LANE, Bramley Hill Top
714-1/26/1204 (East side (off))
26/09/63 The Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HOUGHLEY LANE, Upper Armley
The Cottage)

GV II

Farmhouse, later gentleman's residence, now 3 houses. Dated
1646, later sub-division, roof raised mid C19. Coursed squared
gritstone rubble, rendered brick and stone additions, stone
slate roofs, hipped on right.
East facade: 2-storey, 2-bay original house with taller
2-storey bay over a cellar right. Quoins. Original central
doorway with chamfered quoined jambs and carved flat-arched
lintel: 'J/RE 1646'. A 6-light recessed chamfered mullioned
window left, blocked doorway, tripartite sash window to right
and to 1st floor; square rendered brick porch with
round-arched window and pedimented blocking course, inner door
half-glazed, in plain surround. Tall corniced ridge stack
centre.
Added wing right: sash window in moulded surround to ground
and 1st floor, paired gutter brackets continue on right return
which has 2 full-height canted bay windows and a 2-bay
addition of c1900 to right, 2 banded ridge stacks.
Left return: rendered, a 5-light mullioned window to 1st
floor, the central light blocked and mullions turned, drip
mould over, a lower single-light window to right; 2-storey,
2-window added range to left.
INTERIOR: original house, the C17 lobby-entry plan remains, a
2-unit plan with rear service rooms, remains of timber
fire-hood and pyramid chamfer stops to front-room beams;
heated parlour, partition and basket-arch to service rooms,
stone-flag floors, former rear stair window blocked when c1900
range added; fine pegged queen-post roof with punched
carpenters' marks. Incised plaster in the original range : 'W
Dewhirst 1 Dec 1837/39', JDE Hirst 1840 7 June'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: thought to have been built by Richard
Ellison, probably a freehold farm (Hill Top Farm); possibly
sub-divided in the mid C18, the stonework of the door surround
moved to right when the new wing was added later C19, probably
after the roof of the original range was raised to 2 full
storeys (1837-40 dates) and the 5-light mullioned window moved
from ground-floor right to the left upper gable. In the early
C19 the house was the property of Mrs Holmes; in 1839 it was

owned by Susannah Holmes who in 1861 sold to William Gott. The
house was tenanted by the Merediths in the later C19; the
property was sub-divided by 1933 and the original house
restored from 1970.

Listing NGR: SE2545534565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547144

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability