Numbers 3 And 6 Heights Including Attached Gateway

A late 16th-century house, now divided into two dwellings, located off Bank Hey Bottom Lane in Ripponden. The house is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof. It follows a 3-room through-passage plan with a projecting gabled cross-wing. The cross-wing features a plinth, string course and coped gable, and contains double chamfered mullioned windows. The ground floor to the left of an inserted doorway has windows of 2 lights, while the first floor has a 4-light window with a hoodmould featuring heart-shaped stops. The through-passage doorway has a shaped lintel and stop-chamfered surround, blocked to create a window. The housebody is lit by two double chamfered mullioned windows, one of 6 lights with a king mullion, the other of 5 lights. Above are windows of 3 and 5 lights, with a 2-light window set between, which is blocked. An end cell contains a 5-light window with a hoodmould, and a 5-light window above it to the first floor. A single-storey outshut on the left return wall contains two lateral stacks. The rear of the house forms a U-shaped plan under three gables, with copings and kneelers. The ground floor has chamfered mullioned windows, and the first floor contains double chamfered mullioned windows of 4 lights to the projecting wings, each with a hoodmould. A central gable, above the through-passage doorway, has a 3-light window with arched lights and decorated label stops. Two other stacks are visible; one backs onto the through passage.

The interior of the housebody reveals scarf-jointed spine-beams, evidence of a former bressumer, and stop-chamfered joists. A fine fireplace features a depressed Tudor arched lintel, sunken spandrels and a richly moulded surround. The rear room of the cross-wing contains a basket-arched fireplace, which was formerly the kitchen. Attached to the rear of the east wing is a tall entrance gateway with a depressed Tudor arched lintel and a cyma moulded surround. It is topped by Gothic coping with bases for three ball finials, which have been replaced by stone cylinders.