| Description | Upper Row, Briestfield Road, Upper Whitley. Row of 18th to early 19th century stone built single storey cottages.
Upper Row was 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 field work report is transcribed below:
'This row of four single storey cottages faces south. They appear to date from c.1860 [possibly earlier as they are present on the OS 1st edition 6' map of 1851 (sheet 247)]. They are now bricked up.
They are built of stone, with squared blocks although these are of different lengths and the courses are deeper at the bottom than further up the wall. The roof is stone slate. The windows are large, very tall and have stone lintels and sills (which project). The doorways are also very tall, running the full height of the wall (2.3m), with stone lintels.
There is a wooden gutter, supported on projecting stones.
Each cottage has one room, with fireplace. The continuous outshut at the rear may well have provided a separate scullery lit by a small window.
Opposite the cottages is a row of coal cupboards and at the west end two WCs'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. 'Upper Row, Briestfield Road, Grange Moor near Wakefield').
The row appears extant on current on line map resources but are now converted into two dwellings (or possibly only one) (https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 10/10/2013). |