Description

SE 10 NE
8/103
23rd June 1965

STATION ROAD
Shepley
No. 30 (Shepley Hall) & No. 32
(Formerly listed as No 20-30 (Range of Cottages next to Shepley Old Hall))

II
GV

House, now divided. Dated 1608 but with C19 and recent alterations.
Thinly coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof. Two storeys.
Hollow chamfered gable copings on cut kneelers to porch. Double pile
plan with 2-gabled front with near-central projecting 2-storey porch
which has wide entrance with deep, arched lintel with raised letters:
"ANNO DOMINI 1608 RH EH" and also possible builders' marks. 1st floor
of porch has 8-light mullioned and transomed, double chamfered window.
The right gable has one 2-light window to ground floor and one 3-light
window to 1st floor, both double chamfered and with hood mould. Altered
windows to its right side. The left part (No. 32) has been rendered.
Windows to its left side appear to be C19. The gable has a C19 or C20
projecting stack which partly obscures a former 4-light window and a
3-light window. Attached to the rear of No. 30 is a range of formerly
3 early C19 cottages, now part of No. 30, altered to the front, but with
3-light windows to rear at 1st floor level and entrance and one 4-light
window to ground floor. Right hand end has been altered.

Interior: No. 32 has good original plaster frieze of affronted mermaids.
The ceiling is divided by a partition but has mouldings with circles
with central motif and squares with Tudor rose. Also fleur-de-lys and
date 1609. The centre part has gone.

The house was built on the site of an earlier house by Robert Hepworth.

H. J. Morehouse, The History of Kirkburton & the Graveship of Holme, 1861.

Listing NGR: SE1937009881

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428737

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)