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Description: Lacey Hey Farmhouse & Lacy Hey Cottage

Address: Lacey Hey Farm And Cottage Towngate Midgley Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6UH

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Gate (south side), Midgley

Full description:
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably mid C17 with reset datestone "RW/1672"; restored and altered c1978. Thinly-coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3-cells (5 1st-floor windows) formerly with through passage; outshut to rear right; early C18 wing to rear centre demolished and replaced by c1978 outshut; left bay extended to rear c1978, south (garden) front: chamfered plinth, quoins. Quoined doorway to right of left-hand cell, formerly in gabled porch, the datestone from which has been reset over doorway. Windows are double-chamfered mullioned on ground floor, single-chamfered mullion above, to 1st cell of 9 lights (2 mullions removed on ground floor, 4-lights and 2 lights above; to 2nd cell of 9 lights with transom and king mullions to ground floor, 2 lights and 4 lights above; to 3rd cell of 6 lights with transom and king mullion to ground floor, 5 lights above. Continuous dripmould, stepped at doorway. 2nd cell was heightened for farm use C19 but following collapse of roof was reinstated as it now is c1978. Shaped kneelers, coping. End stack to right; ridge stack between 1st and 2nd cells and another near left end, both c1978. Added pent porch at right end. Rear: C17 outshut: doorway on left has chamfered arch-cut lintel; double-chamfered mullion windows, of 2 lights (mullion removed) and 4-lights to right of door, and of 2 lights to left of c1978 door. Central C20 outshut reuses C18 mullion windows. On right, gabled wing built out c1978. Left return: a blocked 3-light double-chamfered mullion window under hoodmould. Right return: on left, dripmould is returned from front as string terminating in carved stop; above it a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion window; to outshut a 3-light double-chamfered mullion window with a 2-light chamfered mullion window above. Interior: central housebody has a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway; kitchen on right has stop-chamfered spine-beams; on 1st floor one stop-chamfered quoined doorway and between the outshut and main range one beam with grooved soffit, probably for a former partition wall; some roof timbers replaced.