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Description: Lower Hathershelf and Heather Cottage (formerly listed as Nos. 8, 10 and 12 Lower Hathershelf)

Address: Heather Cottage Lower Hathershelf Hathershelf Lane Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Hathershelf Lane, Luddendenfoot, Halifax

Full description:
House, now in 2 occupations initialled and dated "R M S-1671" (for Robert and Mary Swaine). Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room through-passage plan with western cross-wing which projects to front but is flush at rear. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. Gabled cross-wing has 9-light window with king mullion (6 * 3) with hoodmould over. Over, to 1st floor, is mullioned and transomed window of 8 lights with stepped hoodmould which continues over former taking-in door (blocked) with monolithic jambs. Finely moulded gothic coping to gable with finial. Left hand return wall has 8-light chamfered mullioned window with 9-light window over to 1st floor with closer spaced mullions. To right of windows disturbed stonework. Right hand return wall has disturbed stonework where formerly a lateral stack may have been, now replaced by an internal stack. Hall has impressive mullioned and transomed window of 18 lights with 2 king mullions. Hoodmould over has initials to left and date to right forming label stops. Over is gabled dormer with coping and finial and window with chamfered surround. Doorway has Tudor arched lintel with stop chamfered surround. Over, window with plain stone surrounds. Service end is gabled with coping, kneelers and finial. 8-light window with king mullion. Over, to 1st floor, is mullioned and transomed 8-light window with hoodmould over. 2 stacks to ridge to either side of through-passage. Single storey outshut to rear set between gabled wings. Interior: Heavily jowled post on stylobat survives to rear of through-passage. Housebody has scarf jointed spine beams, evidence of former bressumer removed when the large hall window was built. It would appear that there was a single aisled timber framed hall with an added stone cross-wing, probably early C17. The hall was then encased in stone in 1671. C. F. Stell, p.64-5, 76.