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The Breck and Lower Breck Farmhouse

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CURIE listed-building-outline:88041/1005/3/001 no fact link
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts about Prefix
Reference 88041/1005/3/001 Facts about Reference
Name The Breck and Lower Breck Farmhouse Facts about Name
Quality Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source no fact link
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council no fact link
Start date 1988-07-19 Facts about Start date
End date Facts about End date
Entry date 2024-01-16 Facts about Entry date
Typology geography no fact link
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Point POINT (-1.934563 53.700124) Facts about Point
Notes The Breck and Lower Breck Farmhouse Facts about Notes
Uprns 010095604172 Facts about Uprns
Description House, now house and farmhouse. C17, early C18 and mid C19. Large blocks of coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Pair of parallel C17 ranges refronted C18, the left range brought forward and C18 bay added, set forward, on right; C19 block added to rear of this C18 bay. Central single-storey 2-bay block with 2 storey gabled wing on right and same, projecting further, on left. Central block: chamfered plinth. Tall 2-light flat faced mullion window with 24-pane sashes with glazing bars under dripmould with floral decorated stop. To its right a 6-panel door in quoined, moulded surround with lintel dated ' TIM 1712' and window set over lintel. Parapet with moulded coping. Ridge stack. To left, above ridge, is gable of C17 range. Left wing: a 3-light window to each floor, fisrt-floor window having sashes with glazing bars; stack to left side. Right wing: quoins; a 3-light window to each floor; stack to right side. Rear: on right the 2 C17 gabled bays: quions to left. On left of right bay 6-panel door in plain stone surround under hollow moulded sring with decorative stop. Double-chamfered mullion windows, over door of 2 lights (blocked), in left bay of 8, now 4 lights with a 6-over-8-light window with king mullion above. Left bay has hollow-moulded hoodmoulds with decorative stops. Shaped kneeler to left. Chamfered coping, bridging valley. Left return of left bay has a 3-light double-chamfered mullion window and former 2-light window above containing 20-pane sash with glazing bars. 2-bay C19 block set back on left: watershot stone, quoins to lower courses on left. 6-panel door on right under reused basket-arched lintel inscribed 'RT 1658'. Two 16-pane sashes to each floor with plain stone surrounds and projecting cills. Right return: C19 block has blocked central door flanked by 2 windows, as rear, on each floor; plain gutter brackets. Left return: the most unified facade, C18, 5 bays with central bay breaking forward under corniced pediment. Plinth. Central half-glazed door with cornice. Windows have plain stone surrounds, some sashes with glazing bars remain, otherwise C20. Interior, The Breck: central range at rear, on ground floor: large segmental arched cyma-moulded, quoined fireplace, timber lintel above, stop chamfered cross-beams; on first floor cyma moulded fireplace with deep lintel and good early C19 grate, king post roof truss with chamfered tie-beam, V struts and trenched purlins. In C18 part, fine stair with iron balusters alternately waved and with decorative panels continuing across landing, and with ramped handrail. Marble fireplaces to ground floor. Reputed to have been a Dower House to Field House, Dean Lane. Archbishop Tillotson's father moved here after leaving Haigh End, Haugh End Lane, (qv). The initials over the door are reputed to refer to his great-nephew, Joshua Tillotson, and his wife Martha (Kendall). H P Kendall, 'Antiquarians at Sowerby. A Pleasant Ramble, '(Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 1 (1902), Saturday June 7th. Facts about Description
Listed building 1313742 Facts about Listed building

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