Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE GREAT EDGE ROAD
SE 0424 & SE 0524
(west side, off) ,
9/72 Luddenden Foot
Westfield Farmhouse and
Westfield House and
attached doorway
GV II
House, now 2, and attached doorway. Late C16/early Cl7 with C17 additions, probably
late C15 remains and C19 alterations and subdivisions, C20 alterations. Remains
of timber-frame cased in large blocks of coursed suared stone, stone slate roof.
Complex plan, apparently originally a hall with through-passage and crosswing on
left with 2nd crosswing added to left (the 2 crosswings now Westfield farmhouse),
extended to rear early C19; the right-hand part (Westfield House) altered and raised
early C19 when subdivided into 2 cottages. East (entrance) front: 2 storeys, 4
bays, the 2 on left flush crosswings. Chamfered doorway to through-passage with
ornamental device on lintel is in pent porch with chamfered doorway abutting right
side of right crosswing. Windows are mostly double-chamfered mullioned. Left
crosswing: 5-light C19/C20 recessed flat-faced mullion window with tall 5-light
window under hoodmould above. Shaped kneeler, coping and finial to gable. Right
crosswing: joint between the 2. A 7-light window and 2-light fire window to each
floor, all with hoodmoulds, lower fire window with one stanchion. Shaped kneeler,
coping and finial to gable; hole for gutter spout between the 2 gables, stack to
outer side of each wing. 2 right-hand bays: facade of 2 cottages, each with C20
glazed door on right and a 4-light flat-faced mullion window to left on each floor,
all openings with plain stone surrounds. Roof hipped to right; stack to left.
Attached to front left corner of building is C20 wall with C17 quoined, chamfered
ogee-headed doorway, the lintel incised with dated panel, "NM IM/1666" and scrolls.
Rear: right-hand portion (crosswings): a 4-light flat-faced mullion window to each
floor of each wing, plus a later doorway and inserted lst-floor lights on left
(masked by c1980 garage, not of interest). Shaped kneeler on right. Left-hand
portion: gabled bay projects on left. To right of this is door and 3-light
chamfered window with 5-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window above.
Left return: rendered. External stack. To its right, on lst floor, a projection
(said to be a garderobe) with 2-light chamfered mullion window. To its left 2-light
chamfered mullion windows, ground-floor ones tall (?C19/C20). Right return: C20
door with 2-light flat-faced mullion window to left and same above. To its right
a 4-light chamfered mullion window with 3-light window above, the lights arched
and with sunk spandrels. Interior: Westfield Farmhouse: right crosswing: front
room has large segmental-arched fireplace with skewbacks and decorative mouldings
and massive spliced spine-beams with broad stopped chamfer indicating former
bressummer; back room has similar fireplace with cyma-moulded cornice and spliced
stop-chamfered spine-beams and joists. lst-floor: front room has small fireplace
with twist moulding to arris and king post truss with A struts. Flanking this
wing are spliced former wall plates with morticed soffits and at its rear, at
junction with extension, is tie beam with mortices in soffit for former wall timbers
and seatings for former rafters. Left crosswing: on ground floor, front room has
low shallow-arched chamfered fireplace and stop-chamfered spine-beams; rear room
has low segmental-arched fireplace brought from Westfield House end, and in right
wall a wooden triangular-arched lintel with one edge joggled and central moulding
brought forward from its position in the right-hand wing. Rooms above have
concealed A-strutted king-post trusses.
RCHM(E) Report 31489.

Listing NGR: SE0475124702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587604

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)