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Description: Bell House

Address: Bell House Bell House Moor Cragg Vale Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 5RU

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Heseltine Lane, Cragg Vale

Full description:
House mid C17 with added outshut to rear mid C18. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. South-east facing front of 2 cells. 1st cell has doorway forming a baffle entry against heck. Tudor-arched lintel with composite jambs and stop chamfered surround. All are chamfered mullioned windows with the mullions flush with front of wall. 4-light window with same, though shorter, over. 2nd cell has 3-light window with same over. Left hand return wall is blind and carries stack. Rear has 2-light window to right of outshut and arched light with sunken spandrels to left. Right hand return wall has 2-light window to both floors. Attached is outbuilding with mono-pitched roof and 4-light window. Interior of housebody has bressumer beam. Heck has curving brace to roof. Part of fire-hood is preserved at 1st floor. The home of leader of the Cragg Coiners, "King" David Hartley who was executed at York in 1770 but is buried in Heptonstall grave-yard. C. F. Stell, p.155-6, 329, 330.