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Description: Old Lock House Fronting Brighouse Lower Lock

Address: Old Lock House Mill Lane Brighouse West Yorkshire HD6 1PA

Grade: II

Group detail: Calder & Hebble Navigation (north side)

Full description:
Lock-keepers house. Early C19. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storey house of 2 bays has single storey octagonal office breaking forward between the 2 bays, forming a stubby 'T' plan. Symmetrical. Doorway has monolithic jambs flanked by 4-pane sash windows with cambered arched lintel, stones treated as bricks, projecting sill. Hipped roof with tri-partite hip. Return walls are blind. House has similar windows to 1st floor, one to each bay and to ground floor in return walls only, with same over. Hipped roof. Large brick stack, offset at junction of office with house. Garden wall to left hand front marks the flood mark 14 ft. which occured Nov. 16, 1866.