| Description | South View, Grange Moor, Upper Whitley. 1926 century council houses.
No.7 South View was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey. The sketch plan produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS (Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'Council Terrace; 2 storey.
7, South View, Grange Moor,
Nr. Wakefield.
This is a stone, terraced house, built by the council, and first let in 1926. It stands in a row of five, facing south, and next to this is another row of five, of the same build. Built on a slope, the roofs are stepped up, above that of the lower, neighbouring house.
The stone walls are regularly coursed, each block being c.10cm wide. The windows are sash, with stone lintels, a central mullion, and sills (which project). The doors have a stone lintel. The chimney stacks are stone, each having two flues.
Entry to each house is into a lobby, the stairs leading up, opposite the door. The living room has a large fireplace, with a cupboard beside and was presumably the cooking area, there being no fireplace in the scullery behind. A coal cupboard is entered from the scullery on one side. The coal grate, lettered 'W. Golden, Huddersfield', is set up in the wall. On the other side of the scullery is a pantry which extends under the stair, and is lit by a small window. There is a back door in the scullery. Upstairs there are three bedrooms, one being very small (box room) and a bathroom, which is an original feature. The main front bedroom (over the living room) has a fireplace. Each house has both a front and rear garden.
Other council housing in Grange Moor was built in 1914 (row of brick houses next to the above) and slightly after South View, at Denby Crescent (stone houses in groups of four, twenty four houses in all, built in a horseshoe, with front and rear gardens and allotments in centre of horseshoe)[see PRN 12840].
Mining was the principal means of employment until recently (with two shafts at Shuttle Eye, one at Lepton Edge, one at Grange Ash (opposite Kaye Arms), and one at the Clough). Presumably, therefore many of these house would have been occupied by miners and their families'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. '7, South View, Grange Moor'). |