Description

SE 02NW HEBDEN ROYD C.P. (off) RAW LANE,
SE 014266 Mytholmroyd

2/218 Birchen Lee Carr and
attached barn (formerly
listed as Birchen Lee Carr
19.7.63 (Nos 2 and 4)

G.V. II*

House, mid C17, with added barn dated 1886. Large dressed stone, stone slate
roof. 3-room through-passage plan with added rear kitchen wing c.1673. Plinth,
string course continues over ground floor windows. 2 chamfered mullioned
windows of 2 lights (lacks mullions) to service end with 2-light double
chamfered mullioned window over. Doorway with cyma moulded surround. All other
windows are double chamfered mullioned. 3-light fire-window. Next 2 cells
break forward under coped gables with kneelers with 2-span roof. Impressive
frontage. 16-light mullioned and transomed housebody window with 3 king
mullions. 5-light window over to 1st floor has hoodmould with decorative stops.
Rainwater chute projects between gables. 7-light parlour window with double
stepped window of 3 over 5 lights has stepped hoodmould. Attached barn,
slightly set back, has elliptical arched cart entry the keystone engraved " S C ".
1 8 8 6
Over is a circular pitching hole with 4 keystones. To either side mistal
doorways with single light window and arrow slit ventilators. Eaves band and
gutter brackets. Left hand return wall has 3-light chamfered mullioned window
with 5-light double chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor which has
hoodmould with scrolled label stops. Rear kitchen wing ruinous though all
stonework preserved including that of segmental arched fireplace. Hall range
has 3-light chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould. Over to 1st floor under
coped gable is double chamfered mullioned window of 6 lights.
Interior preserves bressumer and reeded spine beams. Fireplace with moulded
shelf, segmental arched lintel carried on corbelled jambs has moulded surround.
A house of some distinction, prominent in the landscape. One of the finest
examples of a Yeoman clothier's house in West Yorkshire. C. F. Stell, p.49,
239, 240, 286. "

Listing NGR: SE0142226694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542473

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)