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Description: Nos. 3 & 6 Heights including attached gateway

Address: 3 And 6 Heights Quakers Lane Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 4HJ

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Bank Hey Bottom Lane

Full description:
Late C16 house, now forming 2 dwellings. Hammer dressed stone, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room through-passage plan with projecting gabled cross-wing which has plinth, string course and coped gable; double chamfered mullioned window of 2 lights and 4 lights (lacking some mullions) to ground floor to left of inserted doorway with monolithic jambs; 1st floor has 4-light window with hoodmould with heart-shaped stops. Through passage doorway has shaped lintel and stop chamfered surround (blocked to form a window); under one hoodmould are 2 double chamfered mullioned windows to light housebody, one of 6 lights with king mullion the other of 5 lights; 1st floor has windows of 3 lights and 5 lights with 2-light window set between (blocked). End cell has 5-light window with hoodmould with stops in the form of carved faces with 5-light window over to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has single storey outshut enclosing 2 lateral stacks. Rear forms U-shaped plan under 3 gables with copings and kneelers. Ground floor has chamfered mullioned windows, 1st floor has double chamfered mullioned windows of 4 lights to projecting wings with hoodmoulds with spiral stops. Central gable, over through-passage doorway has 3-light window arched lights and decorated label stops. 2 other stacks, one backs on to through passage. Interior: housebody has scarf-jointed spine-beams, evidence of former bressumer, and stop-chamfered joists; fine fireplace with depressed Tudor arched lintel, sunken spandrels and richly moulded surround. Rear room of cross-wing has basket-arched fireplace to former kitchen. Attached to rear of east wing is tall entrance gateway with depressed Tudor arched lintel and cyma moulded surround, Gothic coping with bases for 3 ball finials replaced by stone cylinders.