Gibson's Mill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Gibson's Mill Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ragged-attic-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Gibson's Mill Cottages, 1/2/3, 4 and 5, Hardcastle Crags, Heptonstall, HX7 7AW
- OS grid reference
- SD 973 298
- Coordinates
- 53.76498, -2.04214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gibson's Mill Cottages is a row of five cottages located in Heptonstall, built in the early 19th century, with the first cottage added shortly afterwards. The cottages are constructed from watershot masonry and feature a stone slate roof, rising to two storeys. Quoins indicate the division between the first two cottages.
Cottage No. 1 has a doorway with monolithic jambs positioned to the right of a square window, which has plain stone surrounds and an additional light added between. Above, there is a three-light flat faced mullioned window on the first floor, with the central light being wider for a sash window. Cottages Nos. 2 to 5 have doorways with tie-stone jambs. Cottages 2 and 3 each feature windows with plain stone surrounds that originally had two square lights, now altered to casements. Cottages 4 and 5 have three-light flat faced mullioned windows with slightly projecting sills on the ground floor and four lights on the first floor, with No. 4 having a blocked light.
The row has three stacks along the ridge, and No. 1 includes a flue that exits horizontally and enters the first floor of the adjacent Gibson Mill, utilizing the corner chimney of the mill. The rear of the cottages features small single lights and two-light flat faced mullioned windows.
Local climate
Gibson's Mill Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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