Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE STEEP LANE
SE 0223
(south side, off)
11/245 Sowerby
15.11.66 Lower Quick Stavers
- II
House now 3 dwellings. Probably early C17, wing added late C18-early C19,
alterations C19, additions and alterations 1980s. Coursed squared stone,
stone slate roofs. Hall and cross-wing with through-passage plan. 2 storeys.
South front: 2-bay hall with lower cross-wing on right and added cross-wing
on left. Hall rebuilt and raised in C19: 2-storey gabled porch on left
has 4-centred-arched doorway with moulded surround, chamfered window of
2 arched lights above, kneelers, coping and finial and, inside, stone benches
and chamfered, quoined, doorway with deep lintel; to right on both floors
is a 9-light double-chamfered mullion window with arched lights and sunk
spandrels; plain gutter brackets; ashlar coping; end stacks. Cross-wing,
projecting on right; on each floor a 4-light window as before with hoodmould
and transom to 1st-floor window; ashlar coping and finial to gable; ridge
stack. Left wing, not projecting: C20 2-light windows as before; ridge
stack. Rear: hall, refenestrated C19, has plain stone surrounds with tiestones
to door on right, central ground-floor window and 3 windows above. Cross-
wing, projecting on left, has a 4-light window as front with hoodmould to
each floor; gable coping and finial; in angle formed with hall is a C20
pent porch with imported chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway. Later
wing on right projects and has a door on right and in left return a 2-light
flat-faced mullion window to each floor. Right return (cross-wing): rebuilt
C20 with two 4-light flat-faced mullion windows to each floor and an added
C20 pent porch. Interior: hall has a C19 fireplace with dentil cornice;
doorway with tiestones inserted in through-passage wall; 1 purlin visible.
HP Kendall, "Quickstavers in Sowerby", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol
11 (1914), pp 173-195

Listing NGR: SE0255523537

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600200

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