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Description: Barn attached to north-west corner of Beeston Hall

Address: Barn Beeston Hall Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Rochdale Road (south side), Ripponden

Full description:
Barn, late C18. Hammer dressed stone, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Wide elliptical arched cart entry with expressed keystone, monolithic jambs and moulded imposts. Over is 4-light flat faced mullioned window. Similar inner arch set within portal with doorways with monolithic jambs set within the re-entrant angle. To either side mistal doorways with monolithic jambs and former 4-light flat faced mullioned window to both floors. Right hand return wall has wide gable with 1st floor taking-in door (blocked). Rectangular ventilators arranged 2 over 3 with owl-hole to apex. It is possible this building may have been connected with the textile industry and was not intended primarily as a barn but may have been a loom shop or warehouse.