Norman Terrace, 11-15 Lidget Street Lindley, Huddersfield

A row of three cottages built in 1898 for workers at Acre Mills. The accommodation comprised a hall, living room and kitchen on the ground floor, and upstairs three bedrooms and an attic. There was also a cellar with a sink, boiler and coals area, and a garden with ashes house. Although small, each cottage had an indoor toilet, an unusual feature for working class housing of that date. Reflecting local traditions, the sandstone used for walls and roof matches the older buildings around them; the rows of windows (especially at the rear) echo the "weavers’ windows" that can be seen all round the district; and the carved lintels are loosely modelled on seventeenth century examples (one of which can be seen on the almshouses in East Street). Nevertheless, the two storey bay of the central house, and the canopy porch with window above to light the hall way, are distinctive features in Wood’s repertoire, and variations of them can be seen in many of his buildings in Huddersfield and Lancashire, such as the Clergy House at Almondbury and along the Rochdale Road, Middleton.

Reference           Edgar Wood in Huddersfield, Edgar Wood Heritage Group (Yorkshire)