Description

BRIGHOUSE TILL CARR LANE
SE 12 NW
1/172 Bottom Hall Farmhouse and
attached Bottom Hall Cottage

II

House in 2 occupations. House with single aisle probably of late C17. Attached
to left hand is a pair of late C18 cottages in hammer-dressed stone, earlier
building rendered but with some ashlar quoins visible to rear, stone slate roof.
2-storey cottages have paired doorways with monolithic jambs with 3-light flat
faced mullioned window to either side. 1st floor has two 2-light and one 3-
light window. Gutter brackets widely spaced. Stack to each gable. At a lower
ridge level is earlier building which has entirely modern doorways and windows,
low sweeping roof has one stack to ridge. Rear preserves slightly recessed flat
faced mullioned windows of 4 lights to each floor and of 2 lights to 1st floor
of cottage which has single storey lean-to extension. Was used as the Township
Workhouse until the Poor-Law Act of 1834. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery
and antiquities, (Halifax 1885) p.20. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse,
(Brighouse 1978), p. 14.

Listing NGR: SE1407525690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426805

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014