Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE MIREY LANE SE 0223 & SE 0323 (east side), Sowerby 11/133 Upper Snape ( and attached barn) 12.lO.78 (formerly listed separately) GV II Farmhouse and attached barn. House dated 'AH' '1677' with bay added probably mid C18; barn mid-late C18. Large blocks of coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. House 2 storeys, 3 bays with added bay on right from which projects 3-bay barn at right angles; house has outshut to rear left. House: plain-stone surround doorways to bays 1 and 2; on left of bay 2 a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway. Double-chamfered mullion windows on ground floor of 5 (now 3), 4 (now 2) and 2 (now 1) lights and a single-chamfered mullion window of 4 (now 2) lights; on 1st floor single-chamfered mullion windows of 4 (now 2), 4 (now 2), and 3 (now 2) lights. Ground-floor dripmould over door and flanking windows, the stops with initials and date. Kneeler and ashlar coping to left; 3 ridge stacks, that on left with capstone. Rear: quoins; outshut has a 9-light, now 5-light,window; a 2-light, now 1-light, window to left and 1st floor of left bay;

added bay on far left has two 2-light flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, those on ground floor blocked, the left-hand one above without mullion. Barn, gable end, has a plain stone surround doorway on left, and 2 windows, left one with cill lowered, right one an insertion. In right return a round-arched cart-entry with tiestones and raised keystone and a 2-light window above (mullion removed). Interior: house: in housebody a tall stone fireplace with chamfered lintel, probably C18; stop-chamfered spine beams, scarf-jointed indicating presence of former bressumer and firehood. In parlour: stone fire- place; 2 spine beams, one stop-chamfered, supported on stone corbels. Barn: two queen-post roof trusses.

Listing NGR: SE0293423441

External Links

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