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Description: Upper Long Bottom Farmhouse and Upper Long Bottom Farm Cottage

Address: Upper Longbottom Farm And Cottage Warley Wood Lane Luddenden Foot Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6BW

Grade: II

Group detail: Warley Wood Lane (south side), Luddenden Foot

Full description:
Farmhouse now two dwellings. Probably mid C17, much altered late C18, subdivided C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with cross-wing on left and through-passage. East (garden) front: main range: between bays 1 and 2 a C20 glazed door with plain stone surround and in C20 gabled porch with reset lintel dated "1 1641 L". Flanked by flat faced mullion windows with plain stone surrounds, of 4 lights on each floor to left and 5 lights to right. Bay 3 has a 4-light double-chamfered mullion window flanked by single lights to ground floor and a 5-light single-chamfered mullion window above, all lights round-arched and with sunk spandrels. Moulded gutter brackets. Stack to left end and to ridge between bays 2 and 3. Cross-wing, breaking forward slightly: quoins to left. On right, door with deep lintel and tie-stones, converted to window. To 1st floor, centre, a 2-light chamfered mullion window. Inturned kneelers and moulded coping to gable. Rear: main range: on right, a C20 gabled porch flanked by 4-light flat faced mullion windows with a similar 5-light and 2-light window above. On left, a plain-stone-surround doorway with window to left on each floor. Later C19 addition projects on left. Plain gutter brackets. Cross-wing, projecting: a 2-light chamfered mullion window to ground floor left; a similar window to 1st floor, centre, with inserted 2-light window on its left. Left return (cross-wing): C19 doorways at either end. On ground floor, chamfered mullion windows with mason's marks of 3, 2 and 3 lights, the latter with an inserted C19 2-light window to its left. On 1st floor, 2 square lights. Interior of cross-wing: stone partition wall surmounted by wattle and daub wall in roof space. Two king-post roof trusses with V-struts, the tie-beam of one chamfered and the other cambered.