| Description | Green End, Wadsworth. Row of cottages built in 1825 with an attached barn.
'Row of 6 cottages and attached contemporary barn, dated 1825. Dressed stone (watershot), stone slate roof. Quoins. 2 storeys. Each has doorway with sill tie to left of 4 light flat faced mullioned window with slightly projecting sill. 5 light window over to 1st floor. Barn to right hand end has segmental arched cart entry with simple Venetian window over. Mistal doorway to right has tie stone jambs and large monolithic lintel. Coped gables with kneelers. Left hand return wall has semi circular arched window to attic the lintel bearing date and initials 'I.B.'. Rear has similar fenestration to barn as at front. Each cottage has doorway with tie stone jamb and sill tie to left of 3 light window with 4 light window over to 1st floor. 5 stacks to ridge'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 12/12/1984. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1227401. Web site accessed 07/11/2013).
Green End was the subject of an archaeological assessment by the Calder Civic Trust and Hebden Bridge Local History Society c.1977 as part of the Joint Survey of Buildings for Proposed Listing. The fieldwork record sheet is held by WYAAS.
Green End was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Worker's Housing Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAS (Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982: RCHME. 1983). The fieldwork report transcribed below:
'This is a row of six stone cottages built facing south. They were built in 1825, as is evidenced by a datestone inscribed:
' I B
1825'
At the east end is a barn. The block is all one build, perhaps built by a farmer or building club. The houses are substantially built and provided with more than the basic accommodation ('Club Row', apparently of much the same date, is just to the south [at SE 00053 28108]). The occupant of no.2 says that a farmer used to live in this cottage and mill workers in the rest (there was a woollen mill nearby). Domestic industries were cotton spinning and weaving.
The buildings are of coursed, watershot stone (rubble). The roof is of stone, with coping and kneelers. There are quoins; no gutter brackets; the doors have interrupted jambs to the stone surrounds; the windows have stone surrounds with projecting sills and are of three lights (at the back), four (ground floor) or five (1st floor front). In the west gable is an arch headed window, now blocked, which would have a loft. The roof space of nos. 2,3,4 and 5 are lit by skylights. Nos. 5 and 6 each have an original back door next to the ground floor window.
The barn has a central cart entrance, arch headed, the arch formed of quoins and stone voussoirs. Above it is a three light Venetian window, on both sides. There is a square window in the east gable and a small circular owl hole.
At the east end, on the north side is a drain with water, probably the original water supply.
No.2 was examined ground floor only. In front of the rear ground floor window is a trap door in the ceiling, said to have had cranes, which would have been used for raising materials etc. up to the first floor workroom. The front door leads directly into the heated living room. Beyond this is a scullery, with stairs to the first floor these are very steep but apparently there used to be a trap door in the scullery ceiling through which would have been raised materials. Work/bed room above; and attic and loft'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME. 1982). 'Wadsworth: Green End, off Walker Lane, Old Town, Hebden Bridge'). |