Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE GOOSE NEST LANE
SE 0422 & SE 0522
(south side, off)
15/70
Nos 1,2,3 and 5 and 4
15.11.66 Norland Edge Farm
- II
Marke on OS map as Hullen Edge. Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings, and attached cottage.
Farmhouse dated "HD 1677", subdivided early-mid C19; cottage late C18 with C19
extension. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. Farmhouse 2 storeys, 3 bays
with through passage, central rear wing and outshut to rear left; 2 + 1 bay cottage
projects forward on right. Farmhouse: double-chamfered mullion windows. From
left: bay 1: a 5-light (now 3-light) window on each floor, to left of doorway with
plain stone surround. Bay 2: similar doorway to left of 6-light (now 3-light)
window with 5-light (now 3-light) window above. Bay 3: stop-chamfered doorway
with deep dated lintel: 3-light window above (mullions removed). Continuous ground-
floor dripmould with decorative heart stops to bays 1 and 2. External stack to
left end, ridge stack on right. Cottage, projecting gable-end on, has blocked
plain stone surround doorway in left return and another door in bay added to gable.
Rear: central. wing: lean-to addition not of interest. Quoins. Gable stack, the
walling to its right set back and with double-chamfered mullion windows of 4 (now
2) lights on ground floor and 2 (now 1) lights above. Left return of wing has
a 4- (now 2) light hollow-chamfered mullion window to 1st floor. Outshut on right
has a 2- (now 1) light chamfered mullion window and a taller 4-light double-
chamfered mullion window to right (1 mullion removed, 1 light blocked). Right
return, cottage: quoins mark extent of original house which has two 2-light flat-
faced mullion windows on each floor. Interior of farmhouse: through-passage (in
Nos 3/5) has chamfered quoined shallow-Tudor-arched doorway on left into housebody
(no 2). This has outline of arched fireplace, stop-chamfered spine beam and similar
doorway into rear wing (nos 3/5) which has large fireplace with (formerly) moulded
surround and deep basket-arched lintel, also chamfered spine beams, stop-chamfered
joists and wide lst-floor floor boards.

Listing NGR: SE0557322576

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479424

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)