Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE NAYLOR LANE
SE 0225-0325
(east side, off),
6/137 Luddenden
- Greave House

GV II
Farmhouse. Early-mid C17 with later alterations. Rendered and painted stone,
stone slate roof. Original plan of hall and cross-wing with through passage. 2
storeys, 5 bays, 2 left bays gabled cross-wings, 2 right bays set back and lower;
rear outshut to bays 3-5. Double-chamfered mullion windows unless stated other-
wise. From left: bay 1 has ground floor dug into hillside; keyed Venetian window
with plain stone surround to lst floor; ashlar coping. Bay 2: 5-light window to
each floor, ground-floor window lacking 2 mullions, lst-floor window under drip-
mould; shaped kneeler on right; ashlar coping. Bay 3: moulded doorway to left of
6-light window, now of 3 lights with flat-faced mullions; 5-light window above.
Bays 4 and 5: windows of 5 and 3 lights to ground floor, and of 5 and 2 lights
above, the latter with flat-faced mullion. Bays 2-5 have a continuous cyma-
moulded dripmould. Corniced ridge stacks to bays 1 and 2; another at right end of
bay 3 in rear roof pitch. Rear: the 2 gabled wings rise above the outshut, the
left one having a later shaped kneeler with ball finial. Interior: barrel-vaulted
cellar dug into hillside; a stop-chamfered moulded shallow-Tudor-arched fireplace
and another early fireplace blocked; stop-chamfered spine beams in housebody and
cross-beams in kitchen (cross-wing).

Listing NGR: SE0384925788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600202

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]