Upper Wat Ing Norland Halifax
Upper Wat Ing Norland Halifax
Author: H.P.Kendall
Date: not dated
Location: Norland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 102298
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The house was originally timber-framed. It belonged to the Waterhouse family for most of the 16th century, and was bought by a George Towne in 1625. In 1638 it was encased in stone.
The house is a Grade II listed building.
The following is from Calderdale Council's listed buildings description:
House.
Dated 1638 and 1668 with earlier origins; C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. RCHM report suggests a timber framed hall and cross-wing of c.1500 has had lower end rebuilt 1638 and stone encasement and west wing added 1668. Through passage. North (entrance) front: 2 storeys, 3 bays, all formerly gabled, left bay rebuilt after fire, single- pitched and projecting. It has single-storey pent roofed projection to front and gutter spout in angle with central bay. Central bay: ground floor masked by C20 single-storey addition; on 1st floor a 3-over 5-light double chamfered mullion window under dripmould with blind arched light to left. Right bay: a 1-light and 2-light window with 2-light window above, all with chamfered mullions. Gables have shaped kneelers, coping and finials. Large stack to ridge of left bay; another between central and right bays. Rear: 3 gabled bays. Right bay projects slightly and has plinth; formerly a door to left; a 3-light double chamfered mullion window with king mullion and hoodmould to ground floor and, above it, a similar window without king mullion with roundel stops and date '16' '38' to hoodmould. Central bay: door to left and above it a reset bi-cusped lintel dated '1668' (George Towne); on each floor a 2-light flat 'GT 1842' faced mullion window, 1st-floor window having decoratively-stopped hoodmould. Left bay: a 2-light window on each floor, 1st-floor window having hoodmould with terminals dated '18' '64'. Shaped kneelers, coping, finials. Interior: barrel-vaulted cellars with stone tables. Central room (housebody) has chamfered fireplace with deep lintel inscribed '16 LAU DEO 38', cornice and timber relieving arch; chamfered spine-beams; to either side of fireplace a chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway and a similar doorway to outshut. Left room has large quoined basket-arched fireplace and doorway to housebody. 1st floor: a stop-chamfered ogee-arched fireplace to central room and another, Tudor-arched, with C19 grate. Former timber frame indicated by timbers between central and right rooms: a post rises from below, braced to tiebeam, the brace morticed for a post to the rail and the tie-beam with mortices for a studded wall. The house was owned by members of the Waterhouse family in the C16 and until 1616; George Towne bought it in 1625 (Kendall pp.98-99). H P Kendall, "Ancient Halls of Norland", (Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 2 (1904), pp.93-111. RCHM(E) Report (31471).
