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Description: Upper Cockcroft Farmhouse

Address: Upper Cockroft Farm Rishworth New Road Rishworth Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 4RE

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: (off) Long Causeway, Rishworth

Full description:
House dated 1607 with added porch dated 1701 attached to Upper Cockcroft (q.v.). Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2 cells in line with rear rooms under paired coped gables. Plinth. Inserted doorway of C17 character to left of 3-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st floor. Double chamfered mullioned and transomed window of 12 lights with hoodmould with spiral stops with 4-light window over to 1st floor; fire-window altered to doorway now blocked to form modern window. Attached to right hand return wall is porch with basket arched doorway with moulded surround, the lintel inscribed "SEL 1701" (Samuel and Ellen Lees), scrolled plinth blocks. Porch protects original entry the lintel inscribed "G.H. ANNO:DOMI: 1607" to right of heck-post. The farmhouse is linked to Upper Cockcroft by a connecting room of 1642 which has 10-light double chamfered mullioned and transomed window with 5-light window over to 1st floor. Rear rendered but preserves some mullioned windows. One stack. Interior: Heck-post supports bressumer. Preserves jambs of fireplace with carved fleur-de-lys in relief.