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Description: Old Haugh End & Old Haugh End Cottage

Address: Old Haugh End And Old Haugh End Cottage Haugh End Lane Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3BJ

Grade: II

Group detail: Haugh End Lane (north side)

Full description:
House, now 2 dwellings. Early C17 possibly incorporating early material. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys; 3 gabled bays, the right bay (Old Haugh End Cottage) breaking forward and having pent porch in angle with main range. Quoins on left. Porch: quoined; flat Tudor arch supported on right by shaped corbel; shaped kneeler on left; chamfered coping; chamfered quoined inner doorway with similar arch and original studded and hinged board door. Right bay: 3 and 4-light chamfered mullion window; similar 4-light window above; chamfered coping; ball finials (one missing); 2-brick ridge stacks. Central bay: tall 7-light double-chamfered mullion window under continuous dripmould; 3-light chamfered mullion and transom window and short 3-light double chamfered mullion window above, both with hoodmoulds. Left bay: all windows double chamfered, mullioned. 8-light window to left of quoined doorway with panel on lintel dated 16??(03/35?) both under continuous hoodmould; renewed 4-light and 5-light windows above with hoodmoulds and flanking a sundial projecting from wall at angle. Left and central bays have continuous coping with gutter spout in valley; ball finials. On ridge of left bay a corniced stack with 2 rebuilt diamond set flues; another stack over central bay. Rear: 3 gabled bays with double chamfered mullion windows. Central bay projects furthest and has quoins, 6-light window to left of later doorway under continuous hoodmould and, to 1st floor, a 3-over-5-light window under hoodmould with decorative stops; external stack on right; to left return a 2-light window under return of hoodmould with decorative stop and blocked oculus above. Right bay has a window masked by C20 lean-to extension and a 2 and 3-light window above on right. Right return: double chamfered mullion windows on ground floor of 2, 4, 3 and 2 (blocked) lights, on 1st floor shorter and of 4 and 5 lights. Left return: C19 openings. Interior, Old Haugh End Cottage: front, "Oak", room: birth place of Archbishop Tillotson and decorated later to commemorate this fact moulded stone fireplace has cornice with pendants initialled 'JT' (John Tillotson) and date 1630 (his birth date), imported over-mantel with classical battle scene; small retractable wooden heads to jambs (possibly to hold fire screen). Very fine panelling below cill level with lozenge and other motifs. On one side panelling taller, more ornate with cupboard and attached cist. Front wall window has panelled soffit and frieze with grotesques. Part of ceiling elaborately moulded (imported). On first floor, 2 cambered tie-stones. Interior of Old Haugh End not inspected. Kendall notes that the initials and date in the Oak Room appear to be by the same craftsmen as those in Old Haugh End of Joshua Horton, dated 1703, and suggests Horton had the Oak Room ones done (Kendall, p167). In 1705 Horton leased the property to Josias Stanfield, and Kendall notes that this date and the initials of Josias and Ann Stansfield feature on the sundial (Kendall, p159). H P Kendall, "Old Haugh End", (Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 7 (1910), pp 137-167.