Description

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SE 0422 and SE 0522
15/312

SOWERBY BRIDGE
Sowerby
DEAN LANE (west side),
Longfield House and Fairfield House

5.9.86

GV
II
Dower house and attached stables, now two houses. Early-mid and late C18 with C19 alterations and C20 conversion. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. L-shaped plan with stables to rear right.

House: two storeys, three bays, rear range added late C18. Symmetrical facade: raised quoins rusticated alternately. Six-panel double-door with two-pane overlight and rusticated ashlar surround in later Tuscan porch with modillion cornice and blocking course. A large double-chamfered cross-window to each side. First floor: central oculus with glazing bars and alternately rusticated voussoired surround flanked by two-light double-chamfered mullion windows, formerly transomed. Dentil cornice. Ashlar coping. Two corniced stacks to centre of right.

Rear: house has six-panel door with window to left on each floor; paired gutter brackets; eaves stack. Stables project on left with inner return of three bays; quoins on left, plain stone surrounds to openings. From left: window, paired glazed doors two windows, wide window, door now window, window. Paired gutter brackets. Two ridge stacks. Right return: straight joint between front range of house, which has watershot masonry, and later work.

Interior: house has C18 dog-leg, open-string stair with turned balusters. Rear entrance hall doorway to front hall has fluted half-columns and segmental pediment.

This was a Dower House to Field House.

Listing NGR: SE0428422805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427909

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)