| Description | Haigh House, Warley. High status rural house dated 1631. Contains reused timbers from an earlier timber framed building.
'Dated 1631. Traditional stone house with stone roof. 2 storeys. Mullioned windows to main, south, front and 2 storeyed porch with arched doorway, the dated lintel inscribed IMM. Long drip moulding to ground storey with carved labels. Plain rear set into hillside'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 03/11/1954. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1258193. Web site accessed 10/01/2013).
Haigh House was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house, dated 1631. The house faces south, is of two storeys, and is built of well coursed gritstone masonry on the facade and thin coursed rubble masonry on the sides. It has a linear plan of three cells with a continuous outshut along the rear.
The south front retains most of its original detail. Recessed splayed mullions are found in the windows to housebody and parlour, splayed mullions flush with the wall in the windows to house body and parlour, splayed mullions flush with the wall in the windows elsewhere. A two storey porch protects the main entry; that the porch is original is shown by the fact the hood mould which runs across the south front runs around the porch also. The outer doorway of the porch has elaborately moulded jambs and the lintel has a cartouche with the inscription 'I M M 1631'. The stops to the hood on ground and first floor are decorated, the initials 'I M' (?) being worked into those on the first floor.
The main door opens into a passage which runs right through the house. While the south doorway is clearly original (with an ogee lintel) the north doorway has been blocked and converted into a window. It is possible that the unusual arrangement at the north end of the passage represents the remains of an external porch, the actual doorway being recessed some two feet inside the line of the external wall.
The house body has two spine beams which show a scarf joint on the same line. This is the unusual evidence for the former existence for the former firehood, and it is likely that the housebody was heated by a hood before the present stack was inserted. The main window may have been subdivided to give a two light fire window lighting the fire area; two mullions look later in their tooling suggesting that they are insertions dating from the time when the firehood was removed. To the east of the housebody lies the parlour, heated originally by an external stack on the gable wall; this stack was blocked at some stage and the present stack inserted. The fireplace here has been reused in modern times from Upper Heys, Warley.
Below the passage is a further room, heated by an inserted stack; the spine beam here is not stop chamfered against the stack. The inferior nature of the windows here suggest that this was a service room or shop. The rear of the house is contained within an outshut. The division between front and rear was a timber screen running east west along the line of the two posts of the arcade structure. These posts rise to support an arcade plate. Running north from the posts are aisle ties; these have three diagonal braces rising to the principal rafter in the outshut. The arcade has timbers which show signs of having been re used from an earlier timber framed building'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Haigh House, Warley').
WYAAS archives also holds copy of a plan of the barn adjacent to Haigh House (Michael Denton Associates. 1996. 'Proposed Barn Conversion. Haigh House Warley'). These relate to Calderdale Council planning reference 1997/00229 [Full reference number |