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Description: Hippins

Address: Hippins Farm Davy Lane Blackshawhead Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 7JG

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Davey Lane, Blackshaw Head

Full description:
House, initialled and dated "1650, I.G.". Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 3-room through-passage plan with rear kitchen wing at right angles forming a "T" shaped plan. 2 storeys. Plinth, continuous string course steps over ground floor windows which are double chamfered mullioned to west of through-passage, chamfered mullioned to service end to east of passage and 1st floor. All have latticed glazing. Parlour has 5-light window with 6-light window over; 6-light housebody window with king mullion with 6-light window over to 1st floor, 2-light fire window. Doorway has inscribed ogee lintel and chamfered surround, decorative label stops to either side. 2-light window over to 1st floor. 2 windows of 2 lights to service end, 4-light window set between over to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has coped gable with kneelers and stack. Rear has depressed Tudor arched doorway with chamfered surround protected by porch with lean-to roof onto rear wing which breaks forward with coped gable with kneelers; 2-light chamfered mullioned window with one of 4 lights over to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has broad coped gable with altered roof pitch to north. Baluster finials to kneelers, lantern finial to apex. 3 stacks to ridge. Interior: Housebody has scarf jointed spine beams, evidence of former bressumer. Division wall between parlour formed of single stones which splay out to carry ceiling beams and 1st floor wall which is double-skin. Staircase with finely turned balusters and newels from Flat Head Farm, Ripponden (Listed Building Ref RI5/28) (q.v.). The finest C17 yeoman farmhouse in the parish. C.F. Stell, p.85, 86.