Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE KENNEL LANE
SE 0221 and SE 0321
(south side, off)
17/106
- Spring Hill and attached
barn
- II
Laithehouse. C17. Rubble brought to course, stone slate roofs. House of 2 storeys,
2 wide bays with front and rear outshuts to end bay, barn on right. Quoins, double-
chamfered mullion windows. South front: barn has central, quoined, round-arched cart
entry with voussoirs and single light above. On right, at lower level, a quoined
mistal doorway. On left, a chamfered, quoined doorway to left of 2-light window with
5- (now 3-) light window above. House: right bay has a blocked plain stone surround
doorway on right (now with window) and a 5-light window with hoodmould and 4-light
window above. Straight joint on left indicates left bay is possibly an addition. It
is single-storey and has, on left, a porch with chamfered basket-arched doorway under
panel incised 'WMP'. Inside is a plain stone surround doorway. To right of porch is
1742
a 4-light window with truncated hoodmould. In right return of outshut a round-arched
light with sunk spandrels. Corniced eaves stack at junction with outshut and at left
end to rear of roof pitch. Finial to left gable. Rear: barn has opposing cart
entry. To its right is a chamfered light, low down, and a chamfered, quoined doorway
with single-chamfered light on right and C20 round-arched light above (this bay now
part of house). House: left bay has 2 doorway-like recesses, that on left with stone
shelves, and a 4-light window above. On right, outshut has two 2-light windows
(mullions removed, one blocked) and a carved hoodmould stop. In left return of out-
shut is quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels in moulded oblong surround.
Above is a single-light window (C19) with hoodmould. Interior not inspected, but left
end of barn has chamfered fireplace, the lintel with incised panel 'IW . Barn roof
1702'
partly destroyed by fire at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE0237521979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427895

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy