1, 3 And 5 Upper Needless

SE 02 NW SE 003273 2/273

HEBDEN ROYD C.P. WADSWORTH LANES, Hebden Bridge No. 1, 3 and 5 Upper Needless

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Former meeting house and dayschool connected with the General Baptist movement which now forms dwellings. Mid C18. Thin coursed stone, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 3-storey gable fronts road. Wide gabled porch has doorway with tie-stone jambs and arched window with chamfered surround. Over apex of porch is former 2-light window with another to 2nd floor. Inscribed plaque reads: "ORIGINAL MEETING HOUSE OF BIRCHCLIFFE BAPTIST CHURCH, FOUNDED BY REV DAN TAYLOR, & OTHERS, A.D.1763"

Gable stack. Left hand return wall has evidence of former outside stair rising to 1st floor door entry with tie-stone jambs, now blocked to form window. Right hand return wall has 5-light chamfered mullioned window with same over to 1st and 2nd floors (both lacking 2 mullions). One other stack to ridge. The attached 2-storey building to rear, with lower roofline, has paired doorways with chamfered surround, with, to either side, former 6-light chamfered mullioned windows. Over doorways is dated plaque inscribed " L J H Harwood 1 7 5 2 " Coped gable with kneelers and stack. Interior of 3-storey house has removable floor boards at pulpit end to enable people on different floors to see the preacher.

Listing NGR: SE0038327312