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Description: Staups House

Address: Staups House 34 - 36 Staups Lane Halifax Calderdale HX3 7AB

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Staups Lane (east side)

Full description:
Wool Merchants House. Dated 1684. Built for John Crowther. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Quoins and continuous ground floor band over windows. 2 storeys. Main west front has three gables with off-centre doorway approached up four curved steps. Wooden panelled door with round-headed moulded ashlar door surround topped with stone plaque originally inscribed "IC 1684". To left a single 6-light deeply chamfered cross-mullion window and to right two similar 8-light cross-mullion windows both with slightly thicker central mullions. Above a 3-light mullion window in deeply chamfered surround over the doorway, flanked by single cross-mullion windows with 5-lights below and 3-lights above, plus a single similar window to right, all in deeply chamfered surrounds with hood-moulds. Left return has blank re-built wall where a fourth gabled wing has been demolished. Right return has blocked 2-light cross casement window in deeply chamfered surround with hood-mould and a former 5-light mullion window, above a similar 2-light window. Rear has later extensions and a single 5-light mullion window. INTERIOR has lobby entry plan-form, with a fine single flight late-seventeenth staicase with bulbous turned balusters and square newels with ball finials. Central room has large moulded ashlar fire surround reputedly moved here from nearby Shibden Hall, north room has 4-centred-arched moulded ashlar fire surround with flanking former cupboards. Chamfered bems. Seventeenth century plank doors and eighteenth century panel doors. Some rooms have frgments of original panelling and cupboards. Seventeenth century partly exposed roof structure.