Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School

SE 0239 and SE 0339 17/67

KEIGHLEY Newsholme GILL LANE (west side) Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School

23.2.55

II

Large house, now house, church and Sunday school. Dated 'RH: SH, 1670', part converted to church and Sunday school 1844. Dressed stone, stone slate roofs. Two storeys. House, on right: five first-floor windows, gable entry. Chamfered plinth. Round-headed-light double-chamfered windows, on ground floor of three, four, three and three lights, on first floor of three, three, three, two and one light. Dripmould, continued across chapel and round right gable. Ashlar coping and central stack with tabling to right. Similar stack to ridge.

Chapel on left is taller with four first floor windows. Chamfered quoined doorway to left and two three-light windows, as house, to ground floor with four transomed windows above of two, two, three and three lights. Ashlar coping. Bellcote to left gable.

Right return: entrance in base of stack which acts as porch with a chamfered quoined doorway with decorated lintel and datestone above. Within porch are benches and inner, nail-studded board door in chamfered quoined surround. To left of stack are a two-light and one-light window with same above and in gable, where blind. To right of stack range breaks forward and has to its return wall, drip-moulds, one- and two-light windows to ground floor, a three-light window to first-floor and two-blind one-light windows above.

Rear: double-chamfered mullion windows, some mullions removed. Chapel has two cross-windows.

Interior: housebody has basket-arched fireplace with voussoirs, massive, chamfered, beams and joists, arid chamfered stone doorways.

Listing NGR: SE0204939812