| Description | Foster Clough Cottages, Wadsworth. Early 19th century terraced row.
'Row of 6 cottages. Early C19. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Single cells each with doorway with monolithic jambs to left of flat faced mullioned window with slightly projecting sill, of 3 lights to ground floor and 4 lights to 1st floor. Eaves band and gutter brackets. Quoins, coped gables with kneelers. 6 stacks to ridge. Some have modern flat roofed dormers out of keeping'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 21/06/1984. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1229554. Web site accessed 04/11/2013).
No.6, Foster Clough was the subject of a planning application in 1988 to 'demolish an outbuilding within the curtilage of a listed building' (Calderdale Council planning reference number LB/88/43/01318).
Peter Thornborrow (Historic Buildings Officer. WYAS) provided the consultation response. Thornborrow described the affected outbuilding as an early 19th century double door privy and/or coal house constructed of roughly dressed grit stone with a stone slate roof. Thornborrow considered that, in general, out buildings should be preserved as they represent part of our social history. This outbuilding, however, was isolated, very small and did not provide useful accommodation; demolition was considered acceptable (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). 1988).
Probably at around the same time, Thornborrow made an archaeological assessment of the cottages. The photographic images produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). 1988. ‘Wadsworth. Foster Clough Cottages, Height Road’). |