Description

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SE 12 NW
5/126

STAUPS LANE (east side)
Nos. 34 and 36

(Formerly listed as No. 34, Staups House, previously listed as No 34 (Staup's House and No 36 (Staup's Cottage)

03.11.54

GV
II*
Wool merchant's house. Dated 1684. Built for John Crowther. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Quoins and continuous ground floor band over windows. Two storeys.

Main west front has three gables with off-centre doorway approached up four curved steps. Wooden panelled door with round-headed moulded ashlar door surround topped with stone plaque originally inscribed "IC 1684". To left a single six-light deeply-chamfered cross-mullion window and to right two similar eight-light cross-mullion windows both with slightly thicker central mullions. Above a three-light mullion window in deeply chamfered surround over the doorway, flanked by single cross-mullion windows with five-lights below and three-lights above, plus a single similar window to right, all in deeply chamfered surrounds with hood-moulds. Left return has blank re-built wall where a fourth gabled wing has been demolished. Right return has blocked two-light cross casement window in deeply chamfered surround with hood-mould and a former five-light mullion window, above a similar two-light window. Rear has later extensions and a single five-light mullion window.

INTERIOR has lobby entry plan-form, with a fine single flight late-seventeenth staircase with bulbous turned balusters and square newels with ball finials. Central room has large moulded ashlar fire surround reputedly moved here from nearby Shibden Hall, north room has four-centred-arched moulded ashlar fire surround with flanking former cupboards. Chamfered beams. Seventeenth century plank doors and some eighteenth century panel doors. Some rooms have fragments of original panelling and cupboards. Seventeenth century partly exposed roof structure.

Listing NGR: SE1063026389

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542756

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)