Sowdens is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1955. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse.

Sowdens

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Post-Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

KEIGHLEY DIMPLES LANE SE 0236 and SE 0336 (east side, off) 22/57 Haworth

23.2.55 Sowdens

  • II

Farmhouse, now cottage and outbuildings. C17. Stone, stone slate roof. One storey; C20 windows. Rear elevation: 2 low storeys: stone mullion windows, some blocked. Left return: gabled porch with coping has moulded Tudor-arched opening, inner stone benches and inner-chamfered, Tudor-arched doorway with original oak-peged oak door with wrought ironwork. Re-used datestone of 1699. From 1742-63 the home of William Grimshaw, incumbent of Haworth, who encouraged the growth of Methodism in Haworth, being instrumental in building the Methodist chapel in 1758, and held many meetings in the Kitchen at Sowdens.

Listing NGR: SE0268136777

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