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Description: Frost Hole

Address: Frost Hole Farm Frost Hole Lane Cragg Vale Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 5RU

Grade: II

Group detail: Frost Hole Lane, Cragg Vale

Full description:
House, early C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2-room plan with added C19 cell. South front has former 3-light chamfered windows to parlour. Former 8-light mullioned and transomed window to eaves level to former open hall. Doorway with straight lintel, composite jambs and stop chamfered surround forms baffle entry. Left hand return wall has 2-light chamfered mullioned window to both floors. Rear has remains of added gabled kitchen, late C17. Hall range has 2-light former fire-window. Right hand return wall has 2 flat faced mullioned windows with projecting sills of 3 lights with single light over. One stack to ridge. Interior of hall has stone heck, segmental arched lintel to fireplace carried on corbel with cyma moulded shelf and stop chamfered moulded surround. Tudor arched doorway to demolished kitchen. Stop chamfered spine beams. Inserted C19 stone wall with 2 segmental arched doorways. King-post truss with 4 'V' struts, grooved to soffit of tie-beam. Part of plaster frieze to former open hall survives above inserted floor on northern wall. C. F. Stell, p.147-9, 244, 306.