Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE
SE 0223 & SE 0323
(north side), Sowerby
11/278
Nos 52 and 54, Castle
Hill
15.11.66
GV II*

House, now 2 dwellings. Dated "INEN 1662". Coursed squared stone, stone slate
roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with wing to rear left. Chamfered plinth, double-
chamfered mullion windows. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre in original
doorway with cyma-moulded surround and ogee-shaped head with date panel on lin-
tel. To left a board door in plain stone surround with block above lintel having
inverted shield with chevrons. Restored 5-light window to bay one and 6-light
window to bay 2 (partly restored), both with transoms. Continuous dripmould with
lozenge stop to left and heart stop to right. lst floor: each bay has a
3-over-5-light window with decorative-stopped hoodmould. End stacks. Rear: main
range: C20 door in plain stone surround to left of 3-light window on each floor.
Pent porch in angle with wing has 2-light flat-faced mullion window and small
light above. Wing has quoins, kneelers, ashlar coping, end stack and, in left
return, a 5-light ground-floor window and 2-light window above. Left return:
cross-window under dripmould on left with 2-light window above. Left return: in
gable of main range a rafter and the ends of the purlins are inside. Wing has a
5-light window to each floor, the lower one with round-headed lights. Interior:
No 54, on left: front room has a large segmental-arched fireplace with stepped
arris and skewbacks, and 2 stop-chamfered spine-beams; rear room has a large,
quoined, segmental-arched fireplace with skewbacks, stop-chamfered spine-beams,
joists, wall plate in right wall; on lst floor a king-post truss between bays
and2 with mortices in soffit of the beam for studs from former partition wall;
another truss between main range and wing, probably with king-post, with part of
an angle strut visible. No 52: triangular-headed fireplace with voussoirs, step-
ped surround and chamfered cornice.

Listing NGR: SE0399423283

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543106

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2