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Description: Lower Snape Farmhouse

Address: Lower Snape Farm Higham & Dob Lane Sowerby Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 1PJ

Grade: II

Group detail: Higham And Dob Lane (south side), Sowerby

Full description:
Farmhouse. Dated 1623. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 3-cell through-passage plan with central rear wing and single-storey rear outshut to left. 2 storeys, four 1st-floor windows. Plinth. On left of right cell a decorative-stopped, chamfered, quoined, triangular-headed doorway with sunk spandrels and raised dated panel to lintel; above it is carved a recess with bell. To left of door, double-chamfered mullion windows of 6 lights (parlour), 7 lights (housebody) and 2 lights (fire window); single-chamfered mullion windows, to right of 3 and 2 lights, and on 1st floor of 5, 5, 2 and 3 lights (from left). Continuous ground-floor dripmould with heartstop on right, rising over bell and curving down over right hand windows which are set lower. Shaped kneelers, chamfered ashlar coping. End stacks, left one external and ridge stack between 2nd and 3rd cells. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Left cell: 2 doorways with plain stone surrounds, that on right more massive, with 2-light window on left and 2-light flat faced mullion window above. Wing: gable stack: in left return a 5-light window to ground floor and a 4-light window above; in right return a chamfered light on 1st floor. Outshut: central door with plain stone surround flanked by 2-light windows (mullion removed from left one). Left return: 2-light windows, to right of stack one on each floor, that on ground floor with dripmould, to left of stack on 1st floor. Right return: blocked windows, of 3 lights and 2 lights above. Interior: housebody: inglenook with chamfered bressumer and heck post and later stone fireplace. Stop chamfered spine beams; stone stair under which is a segmental-arched doorway to blocked barrel-vaulted cellar. Right hand room has chamfered, quoined fireplace with bulbous stops, monolithic lintel and chamfered ledge; 2 stop chamfered spine beams on corbels. Room above this has a stop chamfered fireplace with tie-stones and triangular-headed, segmental arched lintel. 3 king-post roof trusses with angle braces, the left 2 with chamfered tie beams, the right one with V struts. (Formerly listed as Snape Farm, Higham and Dob Lane).