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Description: Nos. 25-42 (consecutive) Includes 43-60 (consecutive) St Stephen's Street

Address: 25 - 41 Calder Terrace Copley Halifax Calderdale HX3 0UH

Grade: II

Group detail: Calder Terrace (St. Stephen's Street)

Full description:
Back-to-back terrace of 36 houses. 1840's for Colonel Edward Akroyd probably by W H Crossland. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Chamfered plinth. Tudor arched doors with ornamental strap hinges in stop chamfered surrounds. 3-light mullion and transom window with 3-light mullion window above, to one side, and, to the other, a small window with one above in gabled dormer shared with adjacent house. All windows double chamfered. Both elevations have 8 dormers, 9 stacks to ridge with plinth, tabling and vertical groove to each face. End houses break forward under coped gable with 2 light mullion window and 2 light mullion and transom window above. End elevations have 3 light mullion and transom window with same above and cellar door below, Tudor arched door and Tudor arched shop window in moulded surround and additional stack to eaves. Garden walls in narrow coursed sandstone with triangular copings. Important early example of planned industrial housing. N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding (London 1979) p 170; D Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (London 1979) p 170; D Linstrum, West Yorksihre Architects and Architecture (London 1978) p 135-6.