Thorpe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1966. A C18 Cottage.

Thorpe Cottage

WRENN ID: hidden-remnant-russet
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Kirklees
Country: England
Date first listed: 14 March 1966
Type: Cottage
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SE 22 SW 2/129 14/3/66

MIRFIELD UD KNOWL ROAD (Mirfield) No. 100 (Thorpe Cottage) (formerly listed as No TOO (Old Grammar School on corner of Westroyd and Knowl Road)

GII Small simple cottage,said to be former Free Grammar School. Possibly C18 but much altered. Hammer dressed stone.Quoins.Stone slate roof.Single storey.Stone porch to front,early or mid C19, with reset doorway with lintel dated 1706.Above is an early or mid C19 plaque inscribed:'FREE Grammar School A.D. 1667'.The cottage has recent and C19 openings and a recent bay.To the rear is a C19 mono-pitched extension. The date 1706 refers to the time when the school was enlarged.H. N. Pobjoy,A History of Mirfield,1968.

Listing NGR: SE2005920449

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