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Description: Kettlesnout

Address: Kettlesnout Ripponden Old Lane Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 4PD

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Ripponden Old Lane, Ripponden

Full description:
House dating from the mid C17 but much altered mid C19 and mid C20. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storey front with rear single-storey aisle and 2 storey kitchen wing. 3-room plan with gabled porch. Quoins. Most windows are altered. Main interest is porch with Tudor arched doorway, cyma moulded surround and spandrels. Inner door has Tudor arched lintel with simple stop chamfered surround. Coped gable with kneelers and finial to apex. To right of porch is a string course over large altered window with chamfered jambs with 3-light chamfered mullioned window over to 1st floor. Sides and rear rendered. 2-light chamfered mullioned window to rear aisle. 2 storey kitchen wing at right angles to main range has coped gable with kneelers and cat-slide roof over side aisle. One other stack. Interior preserves spine-beam which is reused timber possibly from a cruck building on the site with distinct curve and mortice holes.