Close Head House And Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Villa, barn.

Close Head House And Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
fallen-solder-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Villa, barn
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 5111 WELL HEADS Hill Top BD13

Close Head House and adjoining barn SE 0832 38/1177

II

  1. Dated 1857. A 2-storey 3 bay villa with service wing, probably a recasing of earlier farmhouse, and incorporating to north-east a barn. Villa designs of this date and type are unusual in the area. Thin sandstone "bricks" with ashlar quoins and dressings. Stone slate roof with moulded eaves cornice. Flanking chimneys with bracketed cornices. Symmetrical south front. Central first floor sash window in rusticated surround, flanking 2-storey pilastered canted bay windows. Pilastered doorway with dated frieze and moulded cornice. Impost moulding to spring of fanlight arch. The set back stone slate roofed barn has segmental archway. Close Head House is prominently set on a terrace overlooking the valley below Thornton.

Listing NGR: SE0830432924

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