Description

BINGLEY ST. IVES ESTATE SE03NE SE092389

5/182 The Cottage attached 9.8.66. at right-angles to north-west corner of Old Harden Grange (formerly listed as St. Ives (Research Institute and 6 flats)) GV II

House, possibly former chapel now store-room and estate workers' rest room. Initialled and dated " F ¨ (Benjamin and Martha Ferrand), B : M 1680 extended to left early C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Earliest house has arched entrance (blocked) with voussoirs and dated keystone and cyma-moulded hoodmould. Set above is 2-light chamfered mullioned window with, to left, window with architrave and cornice with decorative stop carved with chalice and paten. 2 cells to right of archway have double-chamfered mullioned windows with dripmould over ground-floor windows : doorway with monolithic jambs and cyma-moulded surround (possibly inserted early C18) to left of 3-light window with 5-light above; 6-light window with king mullions with 3-light above; doorway with cyma-moulded surround with 2-light above. Block added to left breaks forward and has rusticated quoins, 4 bays under separate gables. All windows have architrave with false keystones. Matching ground-floor doorway set in 3rd bay (blocked) originally approached up short flight of steps now gone. Oval windows set in gables have raised square surrounds; coped gables with ball finials to apex and projecting rainwater spouts in valleys. Stack to left gable has blind arcading, one other ridge stack to C18 range. 2 ridge stacks to C17 (chapel) house with unusual square bellcote to right gable with 3 arched belfry openings to each face and pyramidal roof with finial. Coped gable with kneelers to right only. Rear has main feature of pointed-arched doorway with raised surround and spandrels at 1st floor level approached up a flight of l0 stone steps (possibly to former chapel?). To right of this doorway another to ground floor with monolithic jambs, a blocking of a larger doorway with wooden lintel opposite archway to front.

Interior : largely gutted but doorway in central passage with cyma- moulded surround survives and leads into C18 part under which is cellar of 2 vaulted ranges with connecting doorway with basket-arched lintel engraved "RF 1704" (Robert Ferrand), the probable date of the building above. Preserved inside is a stone table top with plate engraved:

"THIS TABLE WAS AT HARDEN HALL when the Troops under GENERAL FAIRFAX were encamped on/Harden Moor/llDcXL II"

Listing NGR: SE0925738946

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)