Description

SD 9828SE HEPTONSTALL C.P. TOWN GATE (north side)
Heptonstall

9/140 No. 38 (Stag Cottage) and
basement lock up
1.11.66 (formerly listed as No 38
Town Gate)
G.V. II

House, late C16 used as Calder Civic Trust headquarters. Large roughly dressed
stone, stone slate roof. Gabled cross-wing and part of range flush with wing
only remains. 2 storeys. Doorway with monolithic jambs inserted into former
mullioned window the jambs of which survive. 3-light chamfered mullioned window
over. 4-light chamfered mullioned window with arched lights and sunken
spandrels with cavetto moulded mullions. Similar 3-light window over to 1st
floor. Coped gable with kneelers and carved apex stone with crocketed finial.
Interior: King-post truss with vertical struts retains wattle and daub infill.
Straight brace to diagonally set ridge. Former wall plate has groove to its
soffit. Basement visible from car park has doorway with monolithic jambs as
entry to arched cellar used as lock-up or dungeon in the C19.

Listing NGR: SD9875428073

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520606

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)