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Description: Machpelah Works

Address: Machpelah Works Burnley Road Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 8AU

Grade: II

Group detail: Machpelah, Hebden Bridge

Full description:
Former fustian warehouse, c1840, now cabinet-maker's workshop. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys to road. 4 storeys to rear which fronts canal. Continuous sill bands to each floor. 7-bay symmetrical facade. Doorway with architrave and Tudor arched lintel retains original 6-panelled door and panelled fanlight. Windows with skewback lintels to each bay and floor. Those to 1st and 2nd floors mainly retain original 30 paned windows with central 6 paned swivel openers. Eaves cornice. Attached to left hand return wall is added 2 single-storey bays for office in similar style with cyma moulded cornice and low-parapet. Rear has similar fenestration. Gable stacks on the return walls which have 2 bays of similar windows. Illustrated in C. Spencer, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (Hebden Bridge, no date), p.27.