Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY LANE
SE 0224 & SE 0324
(east side),
8/228 Luddenden Foot
15.11.66 Raw End Farmhouse
(formerly listed
as Row End,
Luddenden Foot)
GV II
House. Dated "I 1627 H". Large blocks of coursed, dressed stone; stone
slate roof. Through-passage plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with partial rear
outshut. South (garden) front: plinth. Double-chamfered mullion windows,
on ground floor (from left to right) of 5 lights, 6 lights, 2 lights, Tudor-
arched, chamfered, quoined doorway with datestone over, 2 lights, 3 lights,
2 lights, all under continuous dripmould rising over datestone. On 1st
floor, windows of 5 lights, 5 lights, single arched light with sunk spandrels
and archivolt dated 1839, 6 lights with king mullion. Coping with bases
of finials. Shouldered and corniced end and ridge stacks, that to left
end rebuilt. Rear: blocked doorway on left, now with window. Chamfered,
quoined, Tudor-arched doorway to through-passage with small chamfered light
above. 4-light chamfered window with 6-, now 3-light window above. Outshut
on right extended to left c1985 with Tudor-arched doorway. Left return:
arched light with sunk spandrels to 1st floor, right. Right return: 3-light
chamfered mullion window to 1st floor, right. Interior: central room
(housebody) has large-scantling stop-chamfered spine beams and joists, all
with grooved moulding; fireplace inserted in inglenook has stone surround
and deep chamfered lintel with rounded corners to soffit. Left-hand room
has chamfered spine beam, groove-moulded joists, and stone fireplace, the
lintel with central triangular chamfer. Right-hand room has replica fireplace
and beams. Barrel-vaulted cellar. Some stone stairs survive under modern
staircase. Left-hand room on lst floor has tie-beam with continuous mortice
in soffit indicating position of former partition wall. One king-post truss
visible in roof at right end, with 'V' struts to heavy-scantling, trenched,
chamfered purlins; diamond-set ridge-piece.

Listing NGR: SE0337224593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480922

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)