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Description: Bottom Hall Farmhouse & attached Bottom Hall Cottage

Address: Bottom Hall Farm And Cottage Till Carr Lane Lightcliffe Brighouse Calderdale HX3 8UB

Grade: II

Group detail: Till Carr Lane

Full description:
House in 2 occupations. House with single aisle probably of late C17. Attached to left hand is pair of late C18 cottages in hammer-dressed stone, earlier building rendered but with some ashlar quoins visible to rear, stone slate roof. 2-storey cottages have paired doorways with monolithic jambs with 3-light flat faced mullioned window to either side. 1st floor has two 2-light and one 3-light window. Gutter brackets widely spaced. Stack to each gable. At a lower ridge level is earlier building which has entirely modern doorways and windows, low sweeping roof has one stack to ridge. Rear preserves slightly recessed flat faced mullioned windows of 4 lights to each floor and of 2-lights to 1st floor of cottage which has single storey lean-to extension. Was used as the Township Workhouse until the Poor-Law Act of 1834. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities, (Halifax 1885) p.20. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.14.