Attached Barn Water Green

A row of five cottages with an attached barn, located on Water Green Lane in Ripponden. The cottages date from the 17th century to the 19th century. Nos. 2, 3, and 4 were originally built as a single house in 1671, with a three-room through-passage plan. No. 1 was added in the late 18th century, and No. 5 and the barn in the early to mid-19th century. The construction is of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof.

The earliest parts (Nos. 4, 3, and 2) have double-chamfered mullioned windows of 4 and 6 lights, featuring a king mullion, with an inserted doorway to the left of the original through-passage doorway. The doorway has monolithic jambs and a Tudor-arched lintel with a cyma moulded surround, inscribed with "I A F 1671." A continuous hoodmould with straight returns runs over these windows and doorway. Other windows include 3-light and 2-light chamfered mullioned windows, and a possible fire-window. Quoins mark the junction of No. 1. The first floor has additional chamfered mullioned windows of 4 lights. No. 1, added to the right, has three-light flat-faced mullioned windows on each floor and a doorway with monolithic jambs. The barn has quoined angles, two-light flat-faced mullioned windows, and a coped gable with kneelers. The rear elevation has largely altered windows; No. 3 retains a 3-light chamfered mullioned window to the first floor. Four stacks are present on the ridge, one backing onto the through-passage, and three others.

The 1671 house was the former home of Samuel Ogden, a celebrated clockmaker from the Halifax district, one of whose clocks is displayed at Shibden Hall museum.