Listed building outline
Higgin Chamber
Geographical area
About this entity
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| CURIE | listed-building-outline:87137/0006/0/000 | no fact link |
| Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | 87137/0006/0/000 | Facts about Reference |
| Name | Higgin Chamber | 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 | 1966-11-15 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | Facts about End date | |
| Entry date | 2024-01-24 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | geography | no fact link |
| Geometry |
MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.948823 53.714601, -1.949038 53.714583, -1.949025 53.714519, -1.94907 53.714516, -1.949066 53.714473, -1.948808 53.714491, -1.94881 53.714501, -1.94868 53.714512, -1.948688 53.714558, -1.948798 53.71455, -1.948805 53.714587, -1.94882 53.714586, -1.948823 53.714601)))
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| Point |
POINT (-1.948894 53.714535)
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| Notes | Higgin Chamber | Facts about Notes |
| Description | House. Mid C17 with later alterations. Coursed dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Garden front: 2-gabled bays with straight joint between. Right bay refenestrated C19 with a 2-light flat faced mullion window to each floor. Left bay: double chamfered mullion windows. Board door in C19 plain stone surround to right of 2-light fire window and 6-light window with transom and king mullion. Dripmould. 9-light window with king mullion and dripmould to 1st floor. Blind 2-light window under dripmould in gable. Coping to both gables, shaped kneelers and finials to outer verges, base of apex finial to left gable, head carved stone on valley coping, arched finial to right angle. Renewed stacks at rear of each bay. Right return (road front): double chamfered mullion windows. 4-panel door in plain stone surround on right. To left of this a gabled bay projects, having an 8-light window with transom, king mullion and dripmould to ground floor and 3-over-5-light window with dripstone above. Shaped kneelers, coping, finials. To left of this bay, on 1st floor, a blind 3-light chamfered mullion window with painted glazing bars. Roof on right hipped and with finial. Left return: added single storey outshut on right. To its left a 2-light double chamfered mullion window, mullion removed. Dripmould over this and at right corner. To left a 4-, now 2-light flat faced mullion window with a 4-light and 2-light window of same type above. To far left on 1st floor a taking-in door. Interior not inspected. Owned by the Stansfields in the C16 and first half of the C17 and tenanted by the Hopkinson family (Kendall, pp 166-9, 172). HP Kendall, Higgin Chamber, Sowerby, (Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 11 (1914), pp 157-172. | Facts about Description |
| Listed building | 1134474 | Facts about Listed building |
Available Code Snippets:
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