Sowerby Hall

Sowerby Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of pebbledashed brick and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys with an attic. The east elevation features sashed windows with glazing bars and plain reveals. On the left side is a one-bay cross-wing, followed by a bay that lights the main part of the house. To the right, there is a two-storey gabled porch, which has a low first-floor window with a segmental head. Adjacent to the porch is a one-bay single-storey outshut made of 19th-century stone, also under pebbledash. The outer doorway, located to the left of the centre of the porch, has plain reveals, while the inner plank door is studded and fitted with strap hinges. The right-hand return wall of the cross-wing features a modern window with plain reveals that was formerly an external entrance to the parlour. There are chimneys on the south wall of the cross-wing and aligned with the front door, the latter having coupled caps.

Inside, a lobby-entry is created by two back-to-back hearths that are now blocked. The central room has two axial chamfered main joists with scroll stops and an ovolo-moulded firehood bressummer. The cross-wing also contains two chamfered main joists. On the first-floor landing, there is a three-light mullioned window made of plastered brick, which is now blocked by a later extension. The roof above the central room is said to have two upper-cruck trusses. It is suggested that the northern room is older than the rest of the house, and a pattern visible on the north wall in burnt headers, before the house was pebbledashed, is believed to represent the date 1603. The house is described and illustrated in detail in the book "Traditional Houses of the Fylde" by R.C. Watson and M.E. McClintock, published in Lancaster in 1979.