Lower Shaw Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Lower Shaw Farmhouse is a house dated "ISH 167?" with a mid-19th century attached barn, located off Rochdale Road in Ripponden. The farmhouse features thin coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and a stone slate roof. It has a through passage and a two-storey porch on the south front, with a gabled cross-wing to the east and a single cell to the west. The barn, which may replace a third room, has quoins and a segmental arched cart entry, with an arched window above. There is an irregular break in the stonework where the barn meets the house.

The farmhouse includes a seven-light chamfered mullioned window with a four-light window above on the first floor. The porch, which has a cat-slide roof, features a doorway with a depressed Tudor arched lintel and an inscription set within a tressure, along with composite jambs and a stop chamfered cyma moulded surround. Above the porch doorway is a two-light window on the first floor.

The east wing has a cyma moulded string course over the ground floor windows, which include double chamfered mullioned windows, a two-light fire-window to the left of a six-light window with a king mullion, and a five-light window above on the first floor. The return walls of the wing are blind. The rear of the wing has quoins and chamfered mullioned windows with two and three lights, and a five-light double chamfered mullioned window above on the first floor. The right-hand return wall of the wing features an arch-headed light with sunken spandrels. The through-passage doorway has a low Tudor arched lintel with a simple chamfered surround, and the windows include a two-light on the ground floor and two four-light windows on the first floor. The barn has a doorway with tie-stone jambs.