{"entry-date":"2023-11-21","start-date":"1984-06-21","end-date":"","entity":42200057,"name":"No. 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"61718/0001/0/000","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":88,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.995679 53.742075, -1.995662 53.742078, -1.995654 53.742082, -1.995584 53.742102, -1.995539 53.742117, -1.995629 53.742258, -1.995639 53.742277, -1.995704 53.742281, -1.995913 53.742289, -1.995921 53.74227, -1.995912 53.742268, -1.995762 53.742099, -1.995748 53.742087, -1.995728 53.742078, -1.995696 53.742074, -1.995679 53.742075)))","point":"POINT (-1.995719 53.74219)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"No. 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless","uprns":"010010187736","description":"Former meeting house and dayschool connected with the General Baptist movement which now forms dwellings. Mid C18. Thin coursed stone, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 3-storey gable fronts road. Wide gabled porch has doorway with tie-stone jambs and arched window with chamfered surround. Over apex of porch is former 2- light window with another to 2nd floor. Inscribed plaque reads: ORIGINAL MEETING, HOUSE OF, BIRCHCLIFFE BAPTIST, CHURCH, FOUNDED BY, REV DAN TAYLOR, & OTHERS, A.D.1763. Gable stack. Left hand return wall has evidence of former outside stair rising to 1st floor door entry with tie-stone jambs, now blocked to form window. Right hand return wall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st and 2nd floors (both lacking 2 mullions). One other stack to ridge. The attached 2-storey building to rear, with lower roofline, has paired doorways with chamfered surround, with, to either side, former 6-light chamfered mullioned windows. Over doorways is dated plaque inscribed  L J H, Harwood, 1 7 5 2. Coped gable with kneelers and stack. Interior of 3-storey house has removable floor boards at pulpit end to enable people on different floors to see the preacher.","listed-building":"1230442"}