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Description: Purprise Farmhouse

Address: Purprise Farm Purprise Lane Pecket Well Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 8RB

Grade: II

Group detail: Purprise Lane

Full description:
House late C17, attached to rear of Lower Purprise (q.v.) with which it originally formed a single dwelling. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan originally with rear baffle entry; one cell is demolished but part of wall with 4-light double chamfered mullioned window survives. 6-light window to left with lowered sill altered to 3-lights with new mullions; 6-light window (lacks 2 mullions). 1st floor has 2 chamfered mullioned windows of 4-lights each lacking 2 mullions. Quoins to left hand return wall only which has coped gable with kneelers and stack. One other stack to ridge. Rear has fine Tudor arched doorway with moulded surround and sunken spandrels near to junction with Lower Purprise. Interior: Door enters against heck screen formed by large dressed stones. Division wall between 2 rooms is formed by single-skin ashlar blocks which splays out to carry double depth wall and spine beams.