1 And 3, Upper Green Lane

This is a late medieval timber-framed house, originally known as Netherhouse, which was re-faced in the late 17th or early 18th century. It is situated in Upper Green Lane, Brighouse. The house is constructed of thin, hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It retains a single-aisled hall plan with a through passage and three-room front. The outer bays have been altered, with windows featuring large wooden lintels. The central bay retains a significant 16-light housebody window with chamfered wooden mullions, decorative leading to the upper part with original coloured glass, and a 4-light fire window with wooden mullions. A left-hand bay exhibits a 4-light flat-faced mullioned window with a 3-light window above a C18 section. All ground floor windows have crude edged slate hoodmoulds with straight returns. An unusual string course made of diagonally set slates functions as a pigeon columbarium, running around the right-hand return wall, which also features an extruded stack with batter and angled chimney. Two other stacks are present along the ridge.

Inside, fragments of the original timber-framed structure remain, most notably a division wall between the aisle and the main body of the house, featuring two posts braced to tie beams with heavy curved braces. The ground floor has board and muntin walling and close-studded walling beneath the tie. The hall was originally open. A framed wall on the west side utilizes slighter timbers and incorporates large panels, with a central post rising to support the main spine beam, likely dating from when a floor was inserted over the open hall. A timber bressumer spans the room, supported at its northern end by a chamfered heck post with a brood chamfered spine beams with run-out stops at both ends. Remains of the original roof hood are present, including two beams resting on the tie beam with mortices for the framing of the hood, and a collar with studs rising at an angle to a second collar resting on the purlins. The hall window features a wooden mullioned window with Roman numerals to each mullion, preserving early glass in decorative leaded quarries. Four Tudor arched timber-framed doorways remain, some with original doors and ogee lintels. This timber mullioned and transomed window is a rare survival, comparable to a window preserved at Bankfield Museum, Halifax from the demolished White Hall, Ovenden.