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Latitude: 53.5849 / 53°35'5"N
Longitude: -1.709 / 1°42'32"W
OS Eastings: 419358
OS Northings: 409853
OS Grid: SE193098
Mapcode National: GBR JVHZ.SM
Mapcode Global: WHCBG.Q5C2
Plus Code: 9C5WH7MR+X9
Entry Name: Croft Head Farm
Listing Date: 23 June 1965
Last Amended: 16 May 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135345
English Heritage Legacy ID: 341215
ID on this website: 101135345
Location: Shepley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD8
County: Kirklees
Civil Parish: Kirkburton
Built-Up Area: Shepley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Shepley St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Agricultural structure
SE 10 NE STATION ROAD
Kirkburton
8/100
No. 14 (Croft Head Farm)
23rd June 1965 (formerly listed as Croft
Head Farmhouse and out-
building)
G.V. II
House, part of group. C17, but greatly altered in the late C18, and
containing timber framing probably of the C15. Coursed rubble with
quoins. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. The main elevation has
late C18 openings, but the near-central doorway has reset triangular
lintel with raised lettering: TM 1620 WM
GOD : BLESS : THIS : HOUSE
AND . THEM. THAT DWELL . THERE IN
To left is 3-light window and to right are 2-light window, both with
mullions removed. Four 2-light windows to 1st floor. To right gable
is central projecting stack, to the left of which is a 2-light double
chamfered window, and to the right is a 3-light window to each floor,
both double chamfered, and a tiny chamfered light. Outshut to rear
with recent stone porch.
Interior: The wall between the house and outshut is timber-framed with
2 visible posts, an intermediate rail and close studding. The posts
are arch-braced to the arcade plate all with pegged joints. A former
doorway in the stud wall is part blocked. At 90° is part of a truss
with housings on its underside for further studding. The main room
has stop-chamfered beams which are scarf-jointed at the point where a
bressumer would have been. The end bay has a moulded fireplace
surround, corresponding to the projecting stack. Further studding to
1st floor.
Listing NGR: SE1935809853
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