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Description: Spring Hill and attached barn

Address: Spring Hill Farm Kennel Lane Mill Bank Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 3EY

Grade: II

Group detail: Kennel Lane (south side, off)

Full description:
Laithe-house. C17. Rubble brought to course, stone slate roofs. House of 2 storeys, 2 wide bays with front and rear outshuts to end bay, barn on right. Quoins, double chamfered mullion windows. South front: barn has central, quoined, round-arched cart entry with voussoirs and single light above. On right, at lower level, a quoined mistal doorway. On left, a chamfered, quoined doorway to left of 2-light window with 5- (now 3-) light window above. House: right bay has a blocked plain stone surround doorway on right (now with window) and a 5-light window with hoodmould and 4-light window above. Straight joint on left indicates left bay is possibly an addition. It is single-storey and has, on left, a porch with chamfered basket-arched doorway under panel incised 'WMP 1742'. Inside is a plain stone surround doorway. To right of porch is a 4-light window with truncated hoodmould. In right return of outshut a round-arched light with sunk spandrels. Cornice and eaves stack at junction with outshut and at left end to rear of roof pitch. Finial to left gable. Rear: barn has opposing cart entry. To its right is a chamfered light, low down, and a chamfered, quoined doorway with single chamfered light on right and C20 round arched light above (this bay now part of house). House: left bay has 2 doorway-like recesses, that on left with stone shelves, and a 4-light window above. On right, outshut has two 2-light windows (mullions removed, one blocked) and a carved hoodmould stop. In left return of outshut is quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels in moulded oblong surround. Above is a single-light window (C19) with hoodmould. Interior not inspected, but left end of barn has chamfered fireplace, the lintel with incised panel 'IW 1702'. Barn roof partly destroyed by fire at time of resurvey.