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Description: Sweet Briar Cottage

Address: Sweet Briar Cottage Bottomley Road Walsden Todmorden West Yorkshire OL14 6QZ

Grade: II

Group detail: Bottomley Road

Full description:
House. Early C18. Watershot masonry, stone slate roof. 2-cell 2 storeys. Quoins, south front has double chamfered mullioned windows of 4 lights and altered window formerly of 4 lights. Mid C20 porch set between, covers C19 doorway. 1st floor has 2 chamfered mullioned windows of 2 wide lights. Kneeler. Rear also preserves a 4-light double chamfered mullioned window to ground floor. Quoins in centre of facade seem to indicate the right hand bay is older than the left, and rear wall of left bay recently rebuilt with outshut of right hand bay. Interior: Housebody preserves 2 spine beams with deep curve cut back for extra headroom. Full depth and stop chamfer at end to wall. May be re-use from a former cruck building, half lap joint visible in full depth.