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Description: Old Town Farmhouse and attached barn (formerly listed as Old Town Farmhouse)

Address: Old Town Farm 3 Old Town Cottages Wadsworth Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 8SP

Grade: II

Group detail: Old Town

Full description:
House dated 1637 with added early C19 barn. Large dressed stone, smaller coursed to barn, stone slate roof, blue slate to one side of roof. 2 storeys. Hall-and-cross-wing 3-room plan with through passage. Gabled cross-wing has copings, kneelers and crocketed finial to apex. Quoins. 10-light C19 flat faced mullioned windows to 3 floors. Basement windows blocked. Right hand return wall of wing has doorway with lintel inscribed "1637 AG". Housebody has unusual stepped window with taller central light of 7 lights with chamfered mullions. Through-passage doorway has composite jambs and chamfered surround. Single arched light over to 1st floor. 6-light window with 4-light double chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor. Rear has through-passage doorway with large monolithic lintel and chamfered surround. Attached is gabled building with columbarium to apex and 2-light chamfered mullioned windows in north wall with taking-in door to 1st floor (blocked). Barn at right angles has stilted arched cart entry with simple Venetian window over. Interior of barn has 3 bays with softwood queen-post trusses. Interior of house not inspected. C.F. Stell, p.287.