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Description: Nos. 3 to 21 (odd) (formerly listed as barn at Upper Marsh Farmhouse, No. 3, 5, 7 (shop) Nos. 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19)

Address: 3 - 21 Marsh Lane (odd) Southowram Halifax Calderdale HX3 9NR

Grade: II

Group detail: Marsh Lane (south side)

Full description:
House of 1678 with range of 1767 to North forming a courtyard plan. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Main front of C17 house faces north into courtyard, has through passage plan, double pile. Doorway with moulded surround at left hand end and depressed Tudor lintel engraved 'SI 1678' with small 2-light window, false arched heads, and curved head which terminates string which carries over whole facade. The remaining windows are double chamfered mullioned and transomed of 12-lights (originally 20) with 12-light window over, next to it a 10-light to right, with 2 cross windows under. Over cross passage, another. Opposite side of courtyard has segmental cart entry with dropped keystone, dated 1767 with initials '-SI'. South front has main feature of doorway with pulvinated frieze. The east gable front, which has been raised, has various blocked openings and a columbarium, and 4 bays of the C18 range with flat faced mullion windows of 4 lights, some reduced to 2. The facade to Marsh Lane has more of the same, mostly altered.