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Description: Butterworth End Farmhouse and Butterworth End Cottage

Address: Butterworth End Farm And Cottage Butterworth End Lane Norland Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3SD

Grade: II

Group detail: Butterworth End Lane (west side, off)

Full description:
Farmhouse, part now a separate cottage/outbuilding. Mid C17 with later C17 wing and late C17-early C18 porch subdivided into several cottages early-mid C19. Coursed squared stone and rubble brought to course (right bay); stone slate roof. L-shaped plan having wing to rear left, 2nd wing added parallel to this to rear centre, and 2-storey porch added in the angle of this later wing and the main range. 2 storeys, 4 bays with through- passage. Quoins to left. Two left bays; refaced C19. Central c1980 porch flanked by 3-light flat faced mullion windows on each floor, all except ground-floor right window with narrow central light. Shaped gutter brackets. Bay 3: chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway with deep lintel formerly in gabled porch; above it a C19 windowand a reset sundial. Bay 4: C19 doorway to left of 4-light window with 3-light window above, both chamfered mullioned. Shaped kneeler and coping to left gable. Ridge stacks between bays 1 and 2 and to wings. Rear: right wing: plinth, quoins on right, eaves lower on right. A 5- light double-chamfered mullion window (2 mullions removed) with hoodmould to each floor. C19 doorway to left on ground floor and window on 1st floor. Left wing: C19 doorway; left return has a 5-light double-chamfered mullion window to each floor, partly blocked by porch, with hoodmould to ground-floor window. Porch: blind 1st-floor oculus; entrance in left return: bricked-up chamfered quoined doorway with deep lintel under blocked oculus and gable with shaped kneelers and coping; inside is earlier chamfered quoined shallow Tudor-arched door- way to main range. Left bay (main range); blocked 2- light window to ground floor, 4-light window to 1st-floor, both chamfered mullioned. Left return: watershot stone; a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion window to 1st floor of wing and main range. Interior: through-passage has stop-chamfered quoined doorway into housebody which has heck beam, large, roll-moulded, elliptical-arched fireplace with pendant over keystone, and chamfered spine beams. Right bay has king-post roof truss with angle struts, large-scantling trenched purlins, rafters and square-section ridge-piece all probably C17. Former numerals on panel housebody chimney breast reported to read "1656"? (RCHM(E) report (31454), although Kendall records the inscription over the fireplace as being '(Mary) I - H 1690', for Issac and Mary Holroyde, Isaac acquiring the property in 1666-7 (Kendall, p 109). HP Kendall, "Ancient Halls of Norland", (Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 2 (1904), pp 93-111.