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Description: Stone Booth Farmhouse & Stone Booth Cottage

Address: Stone Booth Farmhouse And Stone Booth Cottage Haworth Old Road Pecket Well Hebden Bridge Calderdale HX7 8RG

Grade: II

Group detail: Haworth Old Road Crimsworth Dean

Full description:
House now in 2 occupations. Late C16 single storey with added rear kitchen wing and porch c1700, 2 cells raised to 2 storeys c1800. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Altered 6-light window with cavetto surround. Porch breaks forward with lean-to roof. Shaped lintel with 3 semi-circles and chamfered surround. Inner door has Tudor arched lintel and broad chamfered surround. Former 6-light window with chamfered surround. All other windows are flat faced mullioned of 4 lights, doorway with tie-stone jamb. Left hand return wall has 2-light cavetto chamfered mullioned window with same over to garrett. Rear has 2-light window with cavetto surround, one over to 1st floor has plain chamfer. Change in stonework to watershot masonry when cellar was inserted lit by 2 light windows. 4 light chamfered window with 2 light window over to the left of kitchen wing which breaks forward at right angles which has watershot gable with coping carried under well dressed stack with cyma moulded cornice. Right hand return wall of wing has altered 4-light window with 3-light window over. Right hand return wall has original 2 light cavetto chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor. Gable surmounted by St. Andrew cross finial on octagonal shaft. Interior: Fireplace with wide segmental arched lintel with cyma moulded surround. Tudor arched doorway to rear kitchen. Beehive oven to left of main entrance. One room retains 8 beams the size of spine beams used as floor joists with chanelled grove to center. One room has segmental arched fireplace on corbelled jambs. C.F. Stell, p.300.