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Description: Acre

Address: Acre Farm Acre Lane, Thorney Lane Midgley Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 6UX

Grade: II

Group detail: Thorney Lane (west side, off), Midgley

Full description:
Laithe-house. c1800; date inscription 'SC, 1837' probably refers to barn conversion. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2-bay house to right of 2-bay barn; outshut added to rear of right bay. House: central board door, the doorway tied into flanking 4-light flat faced mullion windows by large impost blocks; 2 similar windows above; tooled stone surrounds to all openings. Barn, converted to cottage: keyed segmental-arched cart-entry on right, blocked and with later 3-light window and keystone dated; chamfered mistal doorway to left end; two 2-light windows above, that to left later, the later windows having plain stone surrounds and flat faced mullions, the earlier window as house windows. Gables have kneelers and ashlar coping. Ridge stacks to right ends of house and barn. Rear: house has one 3-light first-floor window; barn has part-blocked opposing mistal doorway. Left return: diamond owl-hole in gable. Interior: house: pantry in outshut is partly below ground level; barn: large fireplace with chamfered mantleshelf to right; fireplace above it with iron grate; angle braces to roof trusses, through purlins. In state of dereliction at time of resurvey.