| Description | 51 High Street, Warley. Stone house dated 1653. Exact location could not be identified. House may have been demolished. There was a house with a similar building footprint and orientation at the location provided by the HER record was present in 1894 (OS 25' 1st edition. c.1894). This position corresponds with the given address below.
WYAAS archives holds a copy of a National Monument Record lesser secular monuments record sheet relating to 51 High Street (no provenance and undated). The hand written description follows:
'The building is dated, in the entrance door head, 1653. It consists of a main block of three room length with outshut at the back of which the west end appears to be original, the central part rebuilt to form gabled projection and the west [?] end rebuilt.
In the west end a single timber post, an outshut tie beam and a timber at the top of the wall between front part and outshut, which is mortised for stud work, appear to the south. Remains of an earlier timber building which was replaced by the existing stone building in 1653?
A number of original stone mullioned windows remain which have or have had 2, 4, 6 and 7 lights. The entrance doorway has chamfered arched and shaped head. The roof has been rebuilt over the main part with steel trusses and roof lights, and the upper part of the house converted to a workshop'.
(Anon. Undated. Lesser Secular Monuments record sheet: '51 High Street, Luddenden'). |