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Reference no. 1272633
Description: Nos. 1 & 2 Abbott's Ladies Home
Address: 1 - 2 Abbotts Ladies Homes Skircoat Green Road Halifax Calderdale HX3 0LA
Grade: II
Group detail: off Skircoat Green Road (east side)
Full description:
Pair of almshouses. c1870. By F Swindon-Barber. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with finials. 2 tall ridge stacks. Chamfered plinth, and first floor band. 2 storey, 4 windows. 2 slightly projecting central gables with two 4-light chamfered cross mullion windows, and above tow 3-light chamfered mullion windows with wooden transomes and ashlar hoods, all with glazing bar casements. Eitherside are single doorways and moulded ashlar bow-headed doorways with part glazed 6-panel doors, and beyond single narrow windows. Above single lancers with moulded heads.
