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Description: No. 13 (Gateway)

Address: 13 Willow Hall Lane Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 2SN

Grade: II

Group detail: Willow Hall Lane (south side)

Full description:
Gatehouse now house. Probably mid-late C17, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2-storeys, formerly having tall ground floor (shortened by raised road level and converted to contain basement); one bay, with single-storey half-bay on right heightened. Road (north) front: half-bay has door. Main bay has round arched gateway, chamfered with moulded voussoirs and imposts, now blocked and with mullion window. Above it a moulded cornice on leaf-decorated corbels, breaking forward at ends and centre and having frieze with carved-face keystone. On first floor a double-chamfered window (formerly of 4 or 5 lights) with one mullion and dripmould with decorative stops. Shaped gutter brackets. Roof hipped, with corner blocks for ball finials (removed) and central, C17, shaped finial. Rear: plinth. Tall round-arched gateway has moulded surround, wave-moulded at base on plinths, and imposts; infilled and now with C20 basement window under 3-light flat faced mullion window. Cornice over gateway as front. On first floor a 4-light, now 2-light, double-chamfered mullion window with decorative stopped dripmould. Left return: on first floor 2 double-chamfered mullion windows, formerly 4-light, left one blocked, with decorative-stopped hoodmoulds. This was the gatehouse to Willow Hall (demolished ) built by Samuel King Cross. The cornices over the gateways are similar in style to those above fireplaces of other houses in the area eg that in Nos. 43-47 Hollins Lane (qv) dated 1688.