Description

BINGLEY ST. IVES ESTATE
SE03NE
SE092389

5/182 The Cottage attached
9.8.66. at right-angles to
north-west corner of
Old Harden Grange
(formerly listed as St.
Ives (Research Institute
and 6 flats))
GV II

House, possibly former chapel now store-room and estate workers' rest
room. Initialled and dated " F ¨ (Benjamin and Martha Ferrand),
B : M
1680
extended to left early C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof.
2 storeys. Earliest house has arched entrance (blocked) with voussoirs
and dated keystone and cyma-moulded hoodmould. Set above is 2-light
chamfered mullioned window with, to left, window with architrave and
cornice with decorative stop carved with chalice and paten. 2 cells
to right of archway have double-chamfered mullioned windows with
dripmould over ground-floor windows : doorway with monolithic jambs
and cyma-moulded surround (possibly inserted early C18) to left of 3-light
window with 5-light above; 6-light window with king mullions with 3-light
above; doorway with cyma-moulded surround with 2-light above. Block
added to left breaks forward and has rusticated quoins, 4 bays under
separate gables. All windows have architrave with false keystones.
Matching ground-floor doorway set in 3rd bay (blocked) originally
approached up short flight of steps now gone. Oval windows set in gables
have raised square surrounds; coped gables with ball finials to apex
and projecting rainwater spouts in valleys. Stack to left gable has
blind arcading, one other ridge stack to C18 range. 2 ridge stacks to
C17 (chapel) house with unusual square bellcote to right gable with
3 arched belfry openings to each face and pyramidal roof with finial.
Coped gable with kneelers to right only. Rear has main feature of
pointed-arched doorway with raised surround and spandrels at 1st floor
level approached up a flight of l0 stone steps (possibly to former chapel?).
To right of this doorway another to ground floor with monolithic jambs,
a blocking of a larger doorway with wooden lintel opposite archway to front.

Interior : largely gutted but doorway in central passage with cyma-
moulded surround survives and leads into C18 part under which is cellar of
2 vaulted ranges with connecting doorway with basket-arched lintel
engraved "RF 1704" (Robert Ferrand), the probable date of the building
above. Preserved inside is a stone table top with plate engraved:

"THIS TABLE WAS AT HARDEN HALL
when the Troops under
GENERAL FAIRFAX
were encamped on/Harden Moor/llDcXL II"

Listing NGR: SE0925738946

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600746

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings