Lower Lime House

SE02NE QUEENSBURY SIMM CARR LANE, Off Shibden Dale

6/43 Lower Lime House

II

House. C17. Rendered walls. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Three-room plan with through passage between centre and right rooms. Added 2-storey wing to rear of centre room, and outshut extension to rear of left room. Original doorway into passage, now part blocked. To right ground floor, one 2-light and one 3-light window, and to 1st floor, one 4-light and one 3-light window. To left one 6-light window to each floor and to left of these, a later doorway in stone, gabled porch. To far left, a 6-light window to ground floor and 5-light window to 1st floor. All windows double-chamfered and a few mullions have been removed. Chamfered gable copings with ball finials on moulded kneelers. Gable stacks and one to left of passage. Rear: The doorway at the rear of the passage is C19. Several altered double-chamfered windows to rear wing. Left gable: Round-arched fire window to 1st floor.

Interior: Stop-chamfered beams and joists in all 3 rooms. Cross- beams form the passage and the one on the right side is grooved possibly for partition. Good fireplace with moulded surround and Tudor arch with sunken spandrels, to centre room. Rough-hewn arched fireplace at back of rear wing. Small arched fireplace in lst-floor room to left. The outshut extension is vaulted. King-post trusses to roof, one having diagonal studding.

Listing NGR: SE0974228107