Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE SHAW'S LANE
SE 0222 and SE 0322
(east side)
14/210 Shaw's Lane Top Farmhouse

- II
Farmhouse. C17, probably early/mid, altered and restored C20. Coursed rubble,
stone slate roof. Main range of one storey and attic, 2 cells with through-passage
and 2-storey bay on left. Quoins; double-chamfered mullion windows. Main range
on left of right bay a gabled porch with chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway
with sunk spandrels, kneelers, ashlar coping, finial and, inside, stone benches
and a similar doorway. To right of porch is a 6-light single-chamfered mullion
window renewed C20, and on left a 2-light fire window with 6-light double-chamfered
mullion window beyond. At higher level on left is a later chamfered light. Three
C20 dormers and a skylight. Corniced ridge stack to left of centre. Left hand
bay: C20 gabled porch on right masking plain stone surround doorway. To its left
a 5-light, now 3-light, window under hoodmould to left and a C20 window above porch.
End stack to left. Rear: main range: gabled porch with chamfered, quoined Tudor-
arched doorway. To its left a 2-light window with renewed mullion; to its right
a blocked quoined doorway with 2-light window (renewed mullion). Left hand bay
projects and has a 5-light, now 3-light, window with hoodmould. Left return: first-
floor window on left of 4, now 3-lights under hoodmould. Right return: two 2-light
windows to ground floor and above. Interior: through-passage has chamfered quoined
doorway on left into house body and door with monolithic jambs on right into service
room. House body has large fireplace with deep corbelled segmental-arched monolithic
lintel and moulded cornice. Left room has fireplace with monolithic lintel. Right
hand room above has small, low, fireplace with deep lintel.

Listing NGR: SE0211322398

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427848

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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]
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)