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
- solitary-gallery-wax
- 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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