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Description: Nos. 52 and 54, Castle Hill

Address: 52 - 54 Castle Hill (even) Towngate Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 1JD

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Town Gate (north side), Sowerby

Full description:
House, now 2 dwellings. Dated "INEN 1662". Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with wing to rear left. Chamfered plinth, double-chamfered mullion windows. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre in original doorway with cyma-moulded surround and ogee-shaped head with date panel on lintel. To left a board door in plain stone surround with block above lintel having inverted shield with chevrons. Restored 5-light window to bay one and 6-light window to bay 2 (partly restored), both with transoms. Continuous dripmould with lozenge stop to left and heart stop to right. 1st floor: each bay has a 3-over-5-light window with decorative-stopped hoodmould. End stacks. Rear: main range: C20 door in plain stone surround to left of 3-light window on each floor. Pent porch in angle with wing has 2-light flat faced mullion window and small light above. Wing has quoins, kneelers, ashlar coping, end stack and, in left return, a 5-light ground-floor window and 2-light window above. Left return: cross-window under dripmould on left with 2-light window above. Left return: in gable of main range a rafter and the ends of the purlins are inside. Wing has a 5-light window to each floor, the lower one with round-headed lights. Interior: No. 54, on left: front room has a large segmental-arched fireplace with stepped arris and skewbacks, and 2 stop-chamfered spine-beams; rear room has a large, quoined, segmental-arched fireplace with skewbacks, stop-chamfered spine-beams, joists, wall plate in right wall, on 1st floor a king-post truss between bays and 2 with mortices in soffit of the beam for studs from former partition wall; another truss between main range and wing, probably with king-post, with part of an angle strut visible. No. 52: triangular-headed fireplace with voussoirs, stepped surround and chamfered cornice.