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Description: Lower Purprise (formerly listed as Purprise)

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

Grade: II

Group detail: Purprise Lane

Full description:
House, 2nd half C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Copings with kneelers and diamond shaped finials to gables and porch. 2 storeys. 2 cells. All are double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds with straight returns to ground floor and chamfered mullioned to 1st floor. Fine porch has basket arched doorway with chamfered surround and 2-light window to apex of gable. Inner door has straight lintel and chamfered surround. 6-light window, 4-light window over; 5-light window. Left hand return wall has 5-light window (lacking a mullion) and 2-light chamfered mullioned window. Rainwater spout in former valley to rear wing now demolished. Right hand return wall has 4-light window (blocked) amd 3-light window with arched lights, sunken spandrels and cavetto moulded mullions. Interior: Segmental arched fireplace with cyma moulded surround and shelf. Stop chamfered spine beams. Doorway in south wall to demolished wing has straight lintel and chamfered surround. C.F. Stell, p.153, 154, 290.