Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY LANE SE 0224 & SE 0324 (west side), 8/221 Boulder Clpugh 15.11.66 Nos 1 - 4 Higgin (formerly listed as Higgin) - II

House and added cottage, now 3 dwellings. C17 with late C18-early C19 cottage. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys; 2 bays with through passage, cross wing on left, wing projecting from rear left and cottage (No 2) added to rear right. Windows are single-chamfered mullioned to lst floor of main range, otherwise double-chamfered mullioned. South front, main range: on left of right bay a half-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround with deep lintel. To left a small 2-light fire window and beyond that an 8-light (now 4-light) window with king mullion under dripmould with heartstop on right and left stop removed. To right of door a 2-light window with mullion removed and a similar window converted to a doorway, under continuous dripmould with heartstops. On lst floor two 3-light windows to each bay, left pair with renewed mullions, right pair without mullions and with cemented cills. Shaped kneeler and coping to right; ridge stack. Crosswing: a 5-light, now 2-light window with door inserted to right and a 4-light, now 2-light, window above; gable coping; ridge stack. Rear: through- passage doorway has chamfered, quoined, surround; inserted window above. Wing projecting to right of this has added porch, renewed flat-faced mullions to ground-floor window, 2 inserted windows above and gable coping; in its right return is a gutter spout; in is left return a 6-light window, mullions removed and replaced as a 5-light window, under dripmould with a circle and a heartstop and above it a 4-light, now 2-light, window. Crosswing has added outshut and former 3-light window above. Cottage projecting on left has added privy range (not of special interest) with a blocked light to right and 2-light flat-faced mullion window above; eaves stack on right. Left return (crosswing): a 5-light flat-faced mullion window to ground floor; 4-light window above. Right return: main range has ground-floor windows of 4 lights (mullions removed) and 2 lights under decoratively-stopped hoodmould and a lst-floor window of 4 round-arched lights. Cottage on right has quoins, C20 door in plain stone surround to right of flat-faced mullion window (mullions removed) with similar 5-light, now 3-light, window above. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE0350024148

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