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Description: Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse & attached barn

Address: Lower Wood Lane Farm Wood Lane Sowerby Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Wood Lane (west side), Sowerby

Full description:
Farmhouse and attached barn. House early-mid C17, barn mid C18. House of thin coursed rubble, barn of coursed squared stone; stone slate roofs. 2-storey, 3-bay house (2 first-floor windows) with 2-bay barn on right. House: quoins; double-chamfered mullion windows. To right of centre, gabled porch, rebuilt c1980, has a chamfered quoined doorway, the lintel dated 1630; round-arched slit windows to sides; and quoined inner doorway with deep lintel. To right and left of porch a 5-light window with 4-light window; ground-floor windows under hoodmoulds. Ridge stack to right of centre and another stack to left end, forward of ridge. Rear: a 2-light window flanked by 3-light windows. Left return: a 3-light window with hoodmould to gable. Barn to left of centre a round-arched cart-entry, bonded and with raised keystone and board doors; above it a Venetian window. To left a stable door with stone lintel. To right, at lower level, a doorway with plain stone surround. Rear: opposing cart-entry infilled; lean-to addition. Interiors: barn: in the house gable wall (on left) is a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; C19 queen post roof with raised purlins. House: later barrel-vaulted cellar with plain stone surround to window; wooden lintels to doors; raised beams, one in left room (removed from central room) having mortice in soffit for former partition. Between central and right-hand rooms are back-to-back C18 fireplaces with plain stone surrounds and cornices; similar fireplace to left-hand room. King-post roof, central tie-beam with mortices for former studs, left-hand truss having mortice to soffit of tie-beam for former partition/walling and studs. This and the front wall plate visible on first floor may indicate that the house originally had a timber frame or the presence of a former cross-wing.