Bowlers Cottage and Attached Barn Lower Cockcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bowlers Cottage and Attached Barn Lower Cockcroft
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corridor-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowlers Cottage and Attached Barn Lower Cockcroft, Cockcroft Lane, Ripponden
- OS grid reference
- SE 022 181
- Coordinates
- 53.65991, -1.96725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowlers Cottage and the attached barn, located on Cockcroft Lane in Ripponden, date back to 1679, with an added rear wing from 1709. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and forms a long range with the barn situated to the left. A modern gabled porch connects to the house, which has double chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor and single chamfered windows on the first floor. The window arrangement includes a 5-light window with a 3-light window above, as well as 2-light and 4-light windows with a 4-light window above, and a 2-light window (possibly a fire-window) with a 3-light window above.
The low porch projects forward and features a doorway with tie stone jambs and a columbarium above the lintel. There are two 3-light windows with 2-light windows above on the first floor, all lacking mullions. The gables are coped and topped with a ball finial. At the rear, there is an impressive double gabled range at right angles, which includes a double chamfered mullioned window with 8 lights and label stops inscribed with "BSH" and "1709," along with a 6-light window above on the first floor and a bulls-eye window at the apex.
Attached to the left return wall are tall gate piers featuring a pulvinated frieze and a cornice topped by a ball finial, leading into a courtyard. There is a rear door, likely to a through passage, inscribed with "IEH 1679." The return wall of the wing has a 6-light window and a 2-light window with a hoodmould that has a heart-shaped stop. The attached barn includes a cart entry set within a single aisle and features angle-strut trusses.
Local climate
Bowlers Cottage and Attached Barn Lower Cockcroft sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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