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Description: Baitings Lodge Farmhouse and Baitings Hall

Address: Baiting Hall And Farm Blue Ball Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 4LR

Grade: II

Group detail: Blue Ball Road, Ripponden

Full description:
House initialled and dated "RPP 1682" with mid C19 added wing to rear. Now forms 2 dwellings. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Hall range with projecting wings with through passage in eastern wing. Wings have coped gables with kneelers and fleur-de-lys finials (probably C19). 2 storeys. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. West wing has mullioned and transomed window of 10 lights with same over to 1st floor, both with hoodmoulds with decorated label stops, those to ground floor bearing initials and date in relief. Hall range, set back, has 12-light mullioned and transomed window with 8-light window over to 1st floor; C19 flat faced mullioned window of 2 wide lights and single light with single light eaves dormers over to 1st floor. Continuous hoodmould over ground floor windows continues around east wing which has doorway with moulded lintel and renewed monolithic jambs to left of 5-light window, with 10-light mullioned and transomed window over to 1st floor. Left hand return wall in C19 hammer dressed stone as is rear wing which has 2 bays of flat faced mullioned windows of 4 lights to each floor. Single storey gabled porch has shouldered arch doorway, coped gable with kneelers and fleur-de-lys finial. Rear of added wing has pointed arched stair-window. Rear of east wing has coped gable with kneelers and original lantern finials, string course, doorway with cyma moulding and flat faced mullioned windows of 2 and 4 lights. Right hand return wall has 3-light double chamfered mullioned window with 4-light window over to 1st floor. 6 stacks. Inside largely featureless. Stop-chamfered spine beams to south front of east wing.