| Description | Club Houses, Wadsworth. Row of early 19th century cottages.
'Row of 6 cottages, early C19. Dressed stone (watershot), stone slate roof, and synthetic tiles to No. 6. Quoins. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are 3 storeys, Nos. 4, 5 and 6 are 2 storeys with lower roofline. Each has doorway with tie stone jambs and 3 light flat faced mullioned window to each floor. Well dressed gable stacks to 3 storey cottages. 3 other stacks to ridge of 2 storey cottages. Right hand return wall has 2 doorways with tie stone jambs probably to coal houses and doorway to No. 1 at 1st floor level with square window to each floor. This doorway leads directly to the top storey formerly used by the whole row for hand loom weaving. Each cottage has an internal communicating door at each floor level. Built as an investment by a local funeral club to pay for burials'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 12/12/1984. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1235127. Web site accessed 07/11/2013).
Club Houses were the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey. The photographic images produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a row six stone house built c.1830 facing south. They are built of watershot, coursed, stone (rubble) with stone roofs (no coping or kneelers) and quoins. The windows have flush surrounds. The sills and lintels are each formed of several pieces of stone and mullions are set on the breaks, forming two or three light windows. The lights are not always of uniform depth. The wider, square lights may originally have been subdivided; but the undivided, square light seems to have been a feature of this area, and would have given more light (although the west gable window is divided into narrow lights. The doors have stone surrounds with interrupted jambs.
The row is all of one built but the three eastern most cottages have three storeys and the other three have two storeys. At the east end, steps lead from the road level to a door on the first floors. Below these is a coal cupboard and two other doors on the ground floor at this end give access to small store rooms. In the west gable there is a five light (narrow light) window on first floor level. The door to no.2 is blocked, and from the coursing, and the mullions, look as though it has always been blocked.
The three storey houses are said to have been used as a club for local farmers until it split up 10 15 years ago'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. 'Wadsworth: Club Houses, Walker Lane, Old Town, Hebden Bridge'). |