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Reference no. 1313986


Description: Moor Bottom Farmhouse and attached barn

Address: Moor Bottom Farm Moorbottom Lane Greetland Halifax West Yorkshire HX4 8PZ

Grade: II

Group detail: Moor Bottom Lane

Full description:
Handed pair of cottages (one empty), with barn built on at right angles, forming a 'T'-shaped plan. Early C19. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Each has doorway with monolithic jambs and 4-light flat faced mullioned window with long stone placed over lintels. At first floor each has two 2-light flat faced mullioned windows. The left hand cottage preserves its windows with glazing of 8 panes. 2 stacks to ridge at gable point. At west end a long narrow barn is built on at right angles with cat slide roof extending down on both sides from roof of cottages. The barn has segmental arch rising from impost blocks with composite jambs. Over is a 3-hole pigeon columbarium. An unusual design of laithe house, the barn forming a wind break to the cottage front on an exposed moorland site.


Last updated: 04/05/2025