The Homestead the Homestead Cottage and Attached Mill Building is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. House, former public house. 1 related planning application.
The Homestead the Homestead Cottage and Attached Mill Building
- WRENN ID
- dim-tin-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1984
- Type
- House, former public house
- Address
- The Homestead the Homestead Cottage and Attached Mill Building, Foxen Lane, Ripponden, HX6 3JN
- OS grid reference
- SE 034 211
- Coordinates
- 53.68682, -1.94895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead, The Homestead Cottage, and the attached mill building is a house that was formerly a public house known as the Sportsman. It dates from the late 17th century, with early 18th-century and mid-19th-century additions. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. It forms a U-shaped block, with the late 17th-century two-cell house (The Homestead Cottage) located to the south. This part is two storeys high with an attic and features two bays of five-light double chamfered mullioned windows, with similar windows above on the first floor, although those are only single chamfered. There is a doorway with composite jambs set between (now blocked) and quoins.
To the north, the right-hand return wall has a former gable-entry doorway with a quoined lintel and a cyma moulded surround. Above this doorway, there is a twelve-light flat-faced mullioned and transomed window, along with a four-light window in the attic. The left-hand return wall has a modern entrance. The building has gable stacks. Set back from the main structure is a single-cell early 19th-century cottage (The Homestead), which features a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a two-light window above it, as well as a seven-light window with two of its three lights above on the first floor. All windows are chamfered mullioned. This façade has been rebuilt, reusing the original windows.
At the junction of the two-and-a-half storey mill building, there is a former doorway with a heavy lintel and tie-stone jambs (now blocked) and quoins. Some windows in this section have wooden lintels. The rear gable features a doorway with a chamfered lintel and large square windows above on the first floor and attic. There is also a single-storey outshut at the rear of the central cottage.
Local climate
The Homestead the Homestead Cottage and Attached Mill Building 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 82% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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