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Description: The Homestead (now called Dan-y-Coed), The Homestead Cottage and attached mill building (now called Old Bridge End)

Address: Homestead Cottage Dan Y Coed And Old Bridge End Foxen Lane Mill Bank Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3JN

Grade: II

Group detail: Foxen Lane (west side), Mill Bank

Full description:
House, former public house known as the Sportsman, late C17 with early C18 and mid C19 additions. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. Forms U-shaped block: late C17 2-cell house (The Homestead Cottage) to south, of 2 storeys and attic, has 2 bays of 5-light double chamfered mullioned windows with same over to 1st floor but only single chamfered. Doorway with composite jambs set between (blocked), quoins. Extended to north, right hand return wall has former gable-entry doorway with quoined lintel and cyma moulded surround. Over, to 1st floor, 12-light flat faced mullioned and transomed window. 4-light window to attic. Left hand return wall has modern entrance. Gable stacks. Set back is single-cell early C19 cottage (The Homestead) which has doorway with tie-stone jambs with 2-light window over; 7-light window with 2 of 3 lights over to 1st floor. All are chamfered mullioned. This face has been rebuilt reusing the original windows. Stack at junction of 2 and a half storey mill building which has former doorway with heavy lintel and tie-stone jambs (blocked). Quoins. Some windows have wooden lintels. Rear gable has doorway with chamfered lintel and large square windows over to 1st floor and attic. Single storey outshut to rear of central cottage.