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Description: Gazebo & attached garden wall Sowerby Croft (formerly listed as Gazebo at Sowerby Croft)

Address: Gazebo & Garden Wall Sowerby Croft Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Sowerby Croft Lane (west side), Norland

Full description:
Gazebo and attached wall. Probably mid C18. Coursed squared stone, wall with brick lining in stretcher bond; stone slate roof. Wall around square enclosure with 2-storey 1-bay gazebo at north-west corner. Gazebo: quoins; openings have plain stone surrounds. North-east front: window on each floor, 1st-floor window taller and with 4-pane sash; shaped gutter brackets; pyramidal roof with finial base. On left, added lean-to covers cantilevered stone stair up to 1st-floor doorway in left return. Rear: tall blocked window; one gutter bracket. Right return: window to each floor, 1st-floor window with 4-pane sash; gutter brackets. Interior: an inserted corner fireplace on each floor; 1st-floor room has moulded cornice and coved ceiling. The wall has quoins and flat coping; it is approximately 1.5 metres high on west side, 3 metres high on north side, 3.5 metres high and stepped on east (road) side, and rebuilt and 1.5 metres high on south side. It encloses what was formerly used as a tentercroft. Kendall notes that the enclosure was formerly larger, the gazebo being situated approximately in the centre (Kendall, p 155). HP Kendall "Sowerby Croft", (Halifax Antiqurian Society), Vol 10 (1913), pp 141-155.