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
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Sowdens, Dimplers Lane, Haworth and Stanbury
- OS grid reference
- SE 026 367
- Coordinates
- 53.82727, -1.96075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sowdens is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage with outbuildings. It is constructed of stone and features a stone slate roof. The building is one storey high, with 20th-century windows. The rear elevation has two low storeys and includes stone mullion windows, some of which are blocked. On the left side, there is a gabled porch with coping, which has a moulded Tudor-arched opening, inner stone benches, and an inner-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway. This doorway retains its original oak-pegged oak door with wrought ironwork. A re-used datestone from 1699 is also present. From 1742 to 1763, the farmhouse was home to William Grimshaw, the incumbent of Haworth, who played a significant role in the growth of Methodism in the area, helping to build the Methodist chapel in 1758 and hosting many meetings in the kitchen at Sowdens.
Local climate
Sowdens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
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