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Description: Wadsworth Banks Farmhouse (formerly listed as No. 2 Banks Cottages)

Address: Wadsworth Banks Farm Raw Lane Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 5RF

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Raw Lane, Mytholmroyd

Full description:
House, late medieval timber framed house the timber mostly replaced in stone at different phases early to late C17. Now forms L-shaped plan with projecting cross-wing. Large dressed stone to front, hammer dressed stone to sides and rear, blue slate roof. 2 storeys. Cross-wing has plinth, impressive 18-light parlour window, double chamfered mullioned and transomed with 2 king mullions with hoodmould over with decorative stops. Over, to 1st floor, the same but without label stops. Coped gable with kneelers and finial. Right hand return wall has double chamfered mullioned cross-window with 2-light window over. Hall range has double chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor and chamfered mullioned to 1st floor. 8-light window with king mullion with 6-light window over. 4-light window with 3-light window over. Break in stonework. 3-light window with, to either side 2-light windows with continuous hoodmould over with decorative label stops. 4-light window over to 1st floor. Coped gable with kneelers. Left hand return wall of cross-wing has double chamfered mullioned window to rear dairy of 6 lights next to inserted C19 doorway with monolithic jambs. Chamfered mullioned window of 3 lights over to 1st floor. Rear of cross-wing has double chamfered mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights. String course. Impressive 12-light mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould with decorative label stops. Coped gable with kneelers which have bases for finials. Rear of hall range is single-storey under added outshut, probably late C18 with segmental arched entry with keystone and impost to left of former 5-light thin flat faced mullioned window. 2 stacks to ridge of hall range, one other to cross-wing. Interior of hall range preserves a close studded timber-framed wall with arched braces and heavily jowled head to post on stylobat. The ground floor has a board and muntin division wall with sill beam on a stone footing. One face of the panelling has muntins with roll moulding of high quality dating from the late C15. A very rare and important survival. C. F. Stell, p.39-43, 279, 280, 282.