10 And 12, High Street

SE2918 9/10 18th August 1986

HORBURY HIGH STREET (north side) Nos 10 and 12

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House, now shop, office and storage. Dated 1637 (Cudworth), later C17 rear centre wing, C18 rear right wing; altered to cottages in the mid C19. Thinly coursed rubble (rendered front), coursed squared stone with quoins to the C18 wing. Stone slate roofs (part collapsed). 3-cell linear plan with lobby- entry to centre cell, rear outshut to left cell (collapsed), kitchen wing to rear of centre cell (part-collapsed) and the C18 wing at the rear of, and parallel to, the right cell. Two storeys. Original quoined doorway into left of centre cell with moulded surround and Tudor-arched lintel bearing the date (now illegible). Other openings, including the five 1st-floor windows are later and not of special interest. Gable copings. Truncated, rendered stack between bays 1 and 2. Later brick stack to right. Rear: one 3-light flat-faced mullion window to C18 wing with a single window with stone surround above. The centre wing (part-collapsed) has quoins to left only, the right part rebuilt. Single-storey monopitch addition to left return, above which is a window with timber lintel. Interior: two stop-chamfered beams on stone corbels to left cell. Stone stair against rear wall. Two boxed-in spine beams to centre cell. Wallplate to rear of centre cell has mortices for aisle-ties presumably for an outshut which pre-dated the later C17 rear wing. The rear wing has a central stop- chamfered spine beam and a queen-strut roof truss with diagonally-set ridge. The C18 wing has, to 1st floor, a deep skirting and a dado rail, fielded- panel window shutters, fireplace with eared architrave and double cupboard with H-hinges. C. Cudworth. Photographs of Old Horbury. 1973. P. Thornborrow. Report for West Yorkshire Archaeological Unit. 1986.

Listing NGR: SE2956418201