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Description: No. 43/45 (Cloth Hall)

Address: The Cloth Hall 43/45 Towngate Heptonstall Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 7NB

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Gate (south side) Heptonstall

Full description:
House, on the site of former Cloth Hall. Late C16 or early C17 single storey building raised to 2 storeys probably mid C18. Large dressed stone to 1st floor, smaller hammer-dressed stone above, stone slate roof. Large dressed stone plinth, likely to be footings for original timber-framed building. Elevation to road has 2-light flat faced mullioned window with projecting sill to left of paired doorways (one blocked) with monolithic jambs one bearing the legend "THE CLOTH HALL c1545 - 1558" recently inscribed. 2 altered windows with slight chamfered surround, another doorway with monolithc jambs (blocked). 1st floor has 3 chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights. Left hand return wall has earlier roof line clearly discernible. Within this, 2-light chamfered mullioned window lacks mullion. In added roof small window to attic with plain stone surround. Perched precariously on apex is original carved apex stone with crocketed finial. Rear fronts graveyard. 3 windows probably of 2 lights survive with chamfered surround. One other of 3 lights. 1st floor has 3 flat faced mullioned windows of 2 lights. 2 stacks to ridge. Illustrated in K. Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage (1981) p.65.