| Description | 3, Chapel Row, Grange Moor. Row of four single storey cottages which adjoin a co op. The shop was previously a Methodist chapel. Chapel and Chapel Row are depicted and named in 1851 (OS 1st edition 6' 1851. Sheet 247).
Chapel 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 and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS. The field work report is transcribed below:
'One of a row of four single storey cottages which adjoin the co op. No.4 is now used as a garage (?). The co op building was originally a chapel hence 'Chapel Row'. As a co op it was originally Grange Moor Co op, but is now run by Mirfield Co op. The cottages used to belong to the co op; could they have been built by the co op [probably not the case. See above]. From no.4, in which the outshut wall is of brick it seems that the outshut may have been added later, in which case, the second bedroom would have been a later development.
The stone walls of the cottages are now rendered (stone in no. 4, 6cm wide). Thin slate roof. The chimneys are stone, later heightened with brick. The windows are sash, with stone surround, interrupted between jambs and lintel. Each house has two flues, each in a chimney stack shared with the neighbour. The larger windows are splayed out on the inner half of the wall.
Entry is straight into the living room. The living room (in no.4) had a stone floor and large fireplace which would have been used for cooking. Beside it is a cupboard. Behind the living room is a scullery, lit by a small casement window, with a small pantry leading out from it (again, lit by a tiny window), one step down. There are two bedrooms, one heated, which seems to have been an original arrangement; but if the outshut was a later addition this arrangement would not have been original. The ceiling is 2.55m high which is a good height. Architraves are plain; there is still a simple moulded skirting board in the main bedroom (as in many other houses) though that in the living room has gone.
From no.4 the roof over the outshut is slightly steeper than the main roof, with its own rafters. The ceiling is lath and plaster.
Each house has an external W.C. and a front garden'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. '3, Chapel Row, Grange Moor') |