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Description: Upper Foot Farmhouse & No. 5 (Upper Foot Farm Cottage)

Address: Upper Foot Farm Upper Foot Luddenden Foot Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6HL

Grade: II

Group detail: Burnley Road (west side, off) Luddenden Foot

Full description:
Farmhouse now two dwellings. Dated 'ESS 1659' with probably earlier timber core and C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof. L-shape plan with through passage, facing south, of 2-storeys, 2 cells (3 first-floor windows) with cross-wing on right (in line at front), rear wing to central cell and narrower rear wing to left cell. Quoins. Left-hand cell: 2 tall chamfered window surrounds, now with a fixed window and a sash with glazing bars, to left of stop chamfered, quoined, cyma-moulded doorway with notched lintel and datestone above; on first floor a 4-light, now 2-light, and a 2-light, now 1-light, chamfered mullion window. Central cell and cross-wing each have an 8-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion under continuous dripmould which continues to left over door, rising above datestone and terminates to left in round stop and to right in diamond-and-heart stop. On first floor of central cell is a 4-light now 2-light chamfered mullion window, and of cross-wing a stepped 5-light double-chamfered mullion window with transom, dripmould and blind inserted light to right. Shaped kneelers and coping to gables. Renewed ridge stack above door; quoined, offset, corniced ashlar external stack to right end. c1980 pent porch on right not of special interest. Rear: cross-wing; quoined, shouldered external stack; to its right on ground floor an inserted door (to No 5) with a round-arched stair window to its right and a 2-light chamfered mullion window above; to its left on first floor (at ground level because of slope of hill) a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway. Central wing has quoined C18 doorway and ridge stack. Right return: to right of stack a 3-light chamfered mullion window on each floor. Left return: main range: C19 door and windows, ground-floor openings breaking into a blocked former chamfered mullion window. Rear wing of 2 bays: left bay has added single-storey range projecting at right angles with quoins and pent roof; right bay has a much restored 5-light double-cham- fered mullion window with a 4-light, now 2-light chamfered window above, and on right an added pent porch which masks a blocked chamfered Tudor-arched doorway into rear of main range. Interior: central house body has large stop-chamfered, quoined, segmental-arched fireplace with arch cut away and stop-chamfered spine beams. Cross-wing has fireplace with re-used Tudor-arched lintel and spliced stop-chamfered spine beams, one with mortices for former partition wall. Central rear wing has mid-late C18 dog-leg stair with turned balusters. First floor: cross-wing has small chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace to front room, and board and muntin partition between this and rear room, the truss with jowled wall posts, king post and A-struts; large scantling rafters. Room over house body has 2 large scantling tie-beams, the rest of the trusses concealed. The rear room of the left wing has a cambered tie-beam with mortices in soffit for studs of former closing wall, and supporting king post and V-struts. Several of the external decorative features and the initials on the datestone are the same as those at Hand Carr Farmhouse, Booth House Road (qv), which is dated 1640.