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Description: Shepherd House Farmhouse with attached outhouse

Address: Shepherd House Farm 8 Shepherd House Luddendenfoot Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6DB

Grade: II

Group detail: Deep Lane (south side, off), Luddenden Foot

Full description:
Farmhouse with attached outhouse. Dated 1745 with late C18-early C19 rebuilding. Painted coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2-storeys, 2 bays. Quoins to 1st floor on right. Paired doorways with stone lintels and tie stones to C20 internal porch. Square window to right and an 11-light window to left; a 5-light and a 4-light window to 1st floor; all windows with plain stone surrounds and flat faced mullions. Moulded gutter brackets. Gable coping. Corniced stacks to ends and forward of ridge to left of centre. Outhouse on left, set forward, with quoined doorway on right. c1970 conservatory set back on right not of interest. Rear: chamfered mullion windows, of 7-lights and 3-lights (one mullion removed) on ground floor, of 5-lights and 3-lights above, the central lights of the left hand windows wider. Right return: roofline of lower house of rubble brought to course. Left return: in gable blocked rectangular opening with dated lintel. In front of the doors is a kerbstone, formerly a lintel, inscribed " L 1646 TH", ie Thomas and Hanna Lister, Thomas being the doYen of the Yorkshire clockmakers.