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Description: Shield Hall Bakery and attached barn

Address: Bakery & Barn Shield Hall Shield Hall Lane Sowerby Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Shield Hall Lane (north side)

Full description:
House, now bakery, and attached barn. C17. Coursed squared stone, barn of coursed rubble, stone slate roofs. 2-storey, 2-cell house, 2-bay barn. South-east front: the wall of the house has been knocked through and a C20 range added (not of special interest), quoins and a plain stone surround doorway being the only early features to survive. The barn has a quoined cart-entry on left under long tripartite lintel with the keystone shaped; above it is an inserted window; to the right a segmental arched mistal doorway. Rear: house: quoins: on ground floor a 5-light, now 3-light, flat faced mullion window to left, an inserted window, and a plain stone surround doorway masked by added brick dairy (not of special interest); on first floor an inserted window with plain stone surround on left, and a 9-light chamfered mullion window with 2 mullions removed and 3 lights blocked; central ridge stack; c1970 2-storey house addition on right not included in item. Interior: house: on ground floor later back-to-back stone fireplaces with chamfered lintels, stop chamfered spine beams; tie-beam has mortices for studs in soffit. Barn: a single truss with wall posts, one with tie to wall and braces to tie-beams and wall plate, short king post block in apex, doubled principal rafters (similar to roof truss in barn at Jack Heys Farmhouse (qv), Styes Lane).