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SOWERBY BRIDGE
Norland
LONDON ROAD (east side, off),
Lower Wat Ing

15.11.66

GV
II
Farmhouse, now house, cross-wing now separate and used as outbuilding. Mid C17 of several builds, possibly with earlier origins; late C18 alterations. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan with through passage. South east (garden) front: two storeys, two bays with added rear range and cross-wing projecting on left. Quoins. Cross-wing: a six-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion and decorative-stopped hoodmould with a six-light single-chamfered mullion window above
kneelers shaped coping, finial; lateral stack to right.

Main range: door to right of centre with reset lintel carved "IMM 1664" (possibly the initials of a Milner) and a c.1970 arched window above; to left and right on each floor a four-light flat-faced mullion window and to far left on ground floor a C19 window; kneeler and coping to right; corniced central ridge stack. Rear: cross-wing on right is set back; the added range is not full width and on the left the main range has a plain stone-surround doorway and a two-light hollow-chamfered mullion window with a similar three-light window above. The added range has, on ground floor, double-chamfered mullion windows of six lights with king mullion, and of three lights, under a continuous dripmould with decorative stops; on first floor single-chamfered mullion windows of six and three lights; external stack to left. The left return of this range has a chamfered quoined doorway to internal porch, a double-chamfered square light, and a three-light chamfered mullion window above, all to left of stack. Its right return has double-chamfered mullion windows of three lights (mullions restored) to ground floor and of four lights with diamond-stopped hoodmould to first floor. The cross-wing has chamfered mullion windows of three and two lights to ground floor and of four lights above. Gutter spout in angle between added range and cross-wing. Left return: a C19 doorway to left of three-light window, formerly chamfered mullioned with similar intact window above.

Interior: porch has inner board doorway with original hinges and wooden bar in hole in passage wall. From the through passage a recessed chamfered quoined doorway leads into the housebody. This has a large stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched fireplace with beam above supporting stop-chamfered spine beams; incised joists; in left wall are two triangular-headed doorways into cross-wing with pegged wooden surrounds and reused carved panel doors; separating housebody from rear kitchen is rail and post with 1958 plank and muntin panelling. Kitchen has large segmental-arched fireplace with small window to one side, chamfered spine-beams and stop-chamfered joists. Stair has reused turned balusters at top. Cross-wing, on ground floor, has mortice in soffit of central cross-beam indicating position of former partition; on the first floor the plank and muntin partition survives, the muntins with incised decoration; above it a king-post truss with V braces. First floor of main range: in central room chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace with bicusped lintel and moulded cornice; central king-post truss with angle braces and another at right end with V braces, cambered tie beam and braces to ridge piece.

RCHM(E) Report (31469).

Listing NGR: SE0732923112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427897

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)