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Description: Low Cote

Address: Low Cote Farm Cote Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 4LT

Grade: II

Group detail: Cote Road

Full description:
House dated 1631. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with single storey aisle to rear. 3-room plan with 2-storey gabled porch. Quoins. All are double chamfered mullioned windows without hood moulds. 2-light window (fire-window?), 3-light window with 3-light window over to 1st floor. Porch breaks forward with finely carved detail. Cyma moulded string, doorway with Tudor arched lintel and richly moulded surround the spandrels inscribed "IMH", "1631". Inner doorway has Tudor arch with sunken spandrels. Porch chamber has window of 3 arch-headed lights with hoodmould over with initialled and dated label stops, "IH", "1631", over which are holes for columbarium. Coped gable with kneelers and finial to apex. Return walls have windows of 2 arch-headed lights and projecting water chutes to each valley of octagonal section, the front solid carved with a star. Immediately to right of porch single arched light; 2 inserted doorways with monolithic jambs to left of 3-light window with 6-light window over to 1st floor. Left hand return wall has doorway with tie-stone jambs to rear aisle. Rear in hammer dressed stone with dressed quoins. Two 2-light windows with 3-light window to 1st floor; aisle breaks forward and has three 2-light single chamfered windows. Right hand return wall has coped gable with kneelers and stepper pitch. Attached is single storey building with chamfered mullioned window of 4 lights to front and 2 lights to rear, possibly former loom shop. 2 stacks to ridge. Interior: Wide through passage is lit by single arched light to right of porch. A Tudor arched doorway with chamfered surround leads from the passage into the service which has large chamfered spine beam and finely reeded floor joists. The former parlour has chamfered spine beam. The low attached building has a fish-bone king post roof.