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Description: The Slack (formerly listed with item HS7/83 as House and Barn at The Slack)

Address: The Slacks Smith Well Lane Heptonstall Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Heptonstall Slack

Full description:
House, late C18. Ashlar, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-bay symmetrical facade. Rusticated quoins, dentil eaves cornice, coped gables with stacks. Doorway has architrave, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment. To either side tripartite sash windows with plain stone surrounds with slightly projecting sill to each floor. Single light over door. Left hand return wall is watershot and has Venetian window with impost and expressed keystone to apex of gable. Under this window is added 2-storey gabled porch with heraldic coat of arms in relief over doorway. Rear has tall stair window with tripartite window to left and 3-light flat faced mullioned window to each floor to right. Interior: Cantilevered stone staircase with decorative cast iron balustrade of identical pattern to Lacy House, Underbank Avenue, Blackshaw C.P. (q.v.) which is dated 1793. 2 rooms have decorative plaster cornices and marble fireplaces.