Boggle House

FYLINGDALES BRIDGE HOLM LANE NZ 90 SW 11/195 Boggle House

• II Formerly Fyling Holme. House, 1898-9 for Fred Byles, a Bradford newspaper proprietor, and his wife Ada. Engineering brick in stretcher bond (an early example of cavity walling) with terracotta dressings. Plain clay roof tiles, terracotta copings, brick chimneys. L-plan. Simplified Tudor style, possibly influenced by Shaw and Webb. Entrance front 2 storeys and attic, 2 bays. Left boarded door in chamfered surround with C17-style heavy lobed lintel; raised central lintel panel dated 1899 with plant decoration. Two 2-light mullioned windows on each floor at right, chamfered and moulded with joggled lintels and sloping cills. This front gabled, with 3-light similar attic window. Small 1-storey left laundry extension with boarded door, small window and left end chimney. South front to road 2 bays, the left gabled, the right narrower and set back. Left bay has 5-light ground-floor window, two 2-light first-floor windows and a 2-light attic window all similar to those on entrance front. Projecting curved butterss to right of this part, and door on each floor in inner return although balcony to upper door was missing at time of survey. Similar windows in right bay. Big chimney with double cornice on roof slope of right bay. Ridged gable copings. Similar windows to rear. Interior has very high quality woodwork. Pitch-pine floors and ceilings with heavy beams; good doors and fitted cupboards, and staircase with turned balusters. Roof has complete internal boarding.

Listing NGR: NZ9487303202