Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE
SE 0226 & SE 0326
(south side), Midgley
4/256
Lacey Hey Farmhouse and
15.11.66 Lacey Hey Cottage
- II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably mid C17 with reset datestone "RW/1672";
restored and altered c.1978. Thinly-coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys,
3 cells (5 1st-floor windows) formerly with through-passage; outshut to rear
right; early C18 wing to rear centre demolished and replaced by c.1978 outshut;
left bay extended to rear c.1978. south (garden) front: chamfered plinth, quoins.
Quoined doorway to right of left-hand cell, formerly in gabled porch, the date-
stone from which has been reset over doorway. Windows are double-chamfered mul-
lioned on ground floor, single-chamfered mullion above, to 1st cell of 9 lights (2
mullions removed on ground floor, 4 lights and 2 lights above; to 2nd cell of
9 lights with transom and king mullions to ground floor, 2 lights and 4 lights
above; to 3rd cell of 6 lights with transom and king mullion to ground floor,
5 lights above. Continuous dripmould, stepped at doorway. 2nd cell was
heightened for farm use C19 but following collapse of roof was reinstated as it
now is c.1978. Shaped kneelers, coping. End stack to right; ridge stack between
lst and 2nd cells and another near left end, both c.1978. Added pent porch at
right end. Rear: C17 outshut: doorway on left has chamfered arch-cut lintel;
double-chamfered mullion windows, of 2 lights (mullion removed) and 4 lights to
right of door, and of 2 lights to left of c.1978 door. Central C20 outshut reuses
C18 mullion windows. On right, gabled wing built out c.1978. Left return: a
blocked 3-light double-chamfered mullion window under hoodmould. Right return: on
left, dripmould is returned from front as string terminating in carved stop; above
it a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion window; to outshut a 3-light double-cham-
fered mullion window with a 2-light chamfered mullion window above. Interior:
central housebody has a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway; kitchen on
right has stop-chamfered spine-teams; on lst floor one stop-chamfered quoined
doorway and between the outshut and main range one beam with grooved soffit, pro-
bably for a former partition wall; some roof timbers replaced.

Listing NGR: SE0292226345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600221

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