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Description: Roebucks

Address: Roe Bucks Danny Lane Luddendenfoot Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6DD

Grade: II

Group detail: Ubby Lane (north end, off), Danny Lane, Luddenden Foot

Full description:
House. Dated '1633 ETG'. For Edmund and Grace Tattershall. Coursed squared stone, rendered; stone slate roof. Through-passage plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays with rear wing. Front: bays 1 and 2 gabled and breaking forward; 2-storey porch to bay 3. Double-chamfered mullion windows; continuous ground-floor cyma-moulded dripmould. Bays 1 and 2: a tall 2-light flat faced mullion window to left of C19 porch which masks plain-stone surround doorway. On right an 8-light window with king mullion. To 1st floor of each bay a 5-light window under hood-mould with spiral stops. Gutter spout in valley between bays. Bay 3: porch: chamfered plinth; doorway with fluted jambs, imposts,fluted ogee lintel; datestone above; on 1st floor a cross-window with spiral-stopped hood-mould and gutter spout to left; inside porch stone benches and inner Tudor-arched, chamfered quoined doorway with nail-studded board door. To left of porch a 2-light window with blocked arched light above. Bay 4: blocked 6(?)-light window masked by modern ramp with two 2-light windows above, one with flat-faced mullions. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping to all gables. Renewed ridge stack to left of porch; shouldered external stack to left end. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Bays 1 and 2: Tudor-arched chamfered, quoined doorway with nail-studded board door to through-passage; 2-light window, now door, to left and a blocked 2-light window to left of blocked 3-light flat faced mullion window. Two 2-light windows above. Wing projecting from bay 3: blind arched fire light with sunk spandrels to ground floor, right; shaped kneelers, coping, corniced gable stack; in right return a gutter spout at floor level, a 2-light window to right on ground floor and similar opening with 16-pane sash above; in left return a 4-light window to each floor. Bay 4: a 6-light, now 3-light, window with small-pane glazing; 3-light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould, above. Left return: to right of stack a blocked 2-light window to each floor; to left of stack a 16-pane sash with brick stack above at eaves. Interior: through-passage has doors off it to left and right, that to left with stop-chamfered, quoined surround. Room on left of through-passage: inglenook with stop-chamfered bressummer and heck post; inserted stone fireplace with chamfered, cambered arch, deep lintel and moulded mantel-shelf; on left of fireplace a splayed recess with round-arched light; stop-chamfered spine-beams; remains of plank and muntin heck screen. 1st floor room to right of through-passage: king-post truss with number V-struts and braces to ridge-piece; trenched purlins; rafters; soffit of tie-beam has continuous mortice. RCHM(E) report (31485).