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Description: Lower Quick Stavers

Address: Lower Quickstavers Steep Lane Sowerby Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 1PF

Grade: II

Group detail: Steep Lane (south side, off)

Full description:
House now 3 dwellings. Probably early C17, wing added late C18-early C19, alterations C19, additions and alterations 1980's. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. Hall and cross-wing with through-passage plan. 2 storeys. South front: 2-bay hall with lower cross-wing on right and added cross-wing on left. Hall rebuilt and raised in C19: 2-storey gabled porch on left has 4-centred arched doorway with moulded surround, chamfered window of 2 arched lights above, kneelers, coping and finial and, inside, stone benches and chamfered, quoined, doorway with deep lintel; to right on both floors is a 9- light double-chamfered mullion window with arched lights and sunk spandrels; plain gutter brackets; ashlar coping; end stacks. Cross-wing, projecting on right: on each floor a 4-light window as before with hoodmould and transom to 1st-floor window; ashlar coping and finial to gable; ridge stack. Left wing, not projecting: C20 2 light windows as before; ridge stack. Rear: hall, refenestrated C19, has plain stone surrounds with tie-stones to door on right, central ground-floor window and 3 windows above. Cross-wing, projecting on left, has a 4-light window as front with hoodmould to each floor; gable coping and finial; in angle formed with hall is a C20 pent porch with imported chamfered, quoined, basket arched doorway. Later wing on right projects and has a door on right and in left return a 2-light flat faced mullion window to each floor. Right return (cross-wing): rebuilt C20 with two 4-light flat faced mullion windows to each floor and an added C20 pent porch. Interior: hall has a C19 fireplace with dentil cornice; doorway with tie-stones inserted in through-passage wall; 1 purlin visible. HP Kendall, "Quickstavers in Sowerby", (Halifax Antiquarian Society), Vol 11 (1914), pp 173-195.