Cuckoo Nest is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Cuckoo Nest
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cuckoo Nest, 1, 2 and 3, Harden Road, BD16 1BD
- OS grid reference
- SE 091 387
- Coordinates
- 53.845, -1.86281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cuckoo Nest is a house that has been divided into three separate homes. It was built in 1693 by Benjamin, Martha, and Robert Ferrand, as indicated by the initials and date on the building. The structure is made of hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a double-depth, two-cell layout with an additional cell added to the right.
The windows throughout the building are double-chamfered mullioned windows. The first cell has a cottage doorway to the left of a five-light window, with a four-light window above it that is missing two mullions. The second cell, which serves as the main living area, features a five-light window and a two-light window, likely a fire-window, along with a small single light to the left of three-light and two-light windows above. There is a dripmould over the ground-floor windows, and the doorway has an eared architrave with rusticated quoins, topped by a dated lintel with a cornice and an oculus window above. The left gable is coped and has kneelers and a stack, while another ridge stack is positioned at the junction with the added cell on the right, which is set back and has a six-light window with a king-mullion under a hoodmould featuring a spiral stop.
The rear of the house retains its original back door, which has a segmental lintel and a broad chamfered surround. The rear of the original 1693 house projects forward and maintains its original window arrangement, including five two-light windows and a cross-window at mezzanine level for stair lighting.
Inside, the main living area features a very large fireplace with a wide segmental arch, a cyma-moulded surround, and spandrels carved with foliage patterns. There are small service rooms at the rear and a replaced dog-leg staircase in its original position. The added cell may have served as a new parlour, as all the beams are elaborately stop-chamfered. A cellar is reported to contain stained glass, although it was not inspected. The main door surround is similar in style to that at Micklethwaite Grange.
Cuckoo Nest was built by the Ferrands on the St. Ives Estate, located near the estate kennels.
Local climate
Cuckoo Nest sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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