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Description: Nos. 1 & 2 Calder House & attached stable

Address: Calder House Bolton Brow Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Bolton Brow (south side)

Full description:
Company agent/manager's house and offices, now 2 houses with workshop under No. 1, and attached stable. 1779. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. Back-to-earth plan, south front of 3-storeys plus basement, north front of 2 storeys. South (canal) front: 5 bays (4 first floor windows), 2-storey stable set back on left with one first floor window. Main house: raised quoins; basement forms plinth; first floor cill band; openings have raised plain stone surrounds. Basement: square window on left; small square window with iron bars to centre. Between the 2 a flight of cantilevered stone steps with iron handrail leads up to central ground floor doorway having original 6-panel door (now centrally hinged) and overlight. 2 windows to either side and same above to first and second floors. Rising from first floor is central, tall, round-arched stair window, top now infilled and with C20 windows. Windows mostly C20 casements, although some are sashes. Moulded gutter brackets. End stacks. Set back on right a pent-foofed addition abutting an added outshut to its rear. Stable on left has door in plain stone surround on left with a 2-light flat faced mullion window to its right and similar window without mullion above. Rear (north front): 3-bay symmetrical facade. Openings have plain stone surrounds, raised cills to windows. Central doorway with overlight and single-light window above. Other windows of 2-lights, left bay with sashes. Moulded gutter brackets. Right return: in gable of house a lunette with ledges to cill, above, and to sides. Interior: wide entrance hall (in No. 1); later dog-leg stair with plain bars and ramped baluster; under it a door leading to original spiral stone stair (now removed) down to offices. In 1779 the Rochdale Canal Company agreed to provide a house for their manager, Thomas Walpole, as part of his contract, and this is the one which was built. Sowerby Bridge, Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, p23.