Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Lower Wood Lane Farmhouse and attached barn is a Grade II listed building located in Sowerby Bridge. The farmhouse dates from the early to mid-17th century, while the barn was built in the mid-18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of thin coursed rubble, and the barn is made of coursed squared stone, both topped with stone slate roofs.

The farmhouse is two stories high with three bays, featuring two first-floor windows. The barn, situated to the right, has two bays. Architectural details of the house include quoins and double-chamfered mullion windows. A gabled porch, rebuilt around 1980, is positioned to the right of center and features a chamfered quoined doorway with a lintel dated 1630. The porch has round-arched slit windows on either side and a quoined inner doorway with a deep lintel. Flanking the porch are a five-light window and a four-light window, with ground-floor windows beneath hoodmoulds. The house has a ridge stack to the right of center and another stack at the left end, which is forward of the ridge. On the rear, there is a two-light window flanked by three-light windows, and the left return features a three-light window with a hoodmould at the gable.

The barn has a round-arched cart entry to the left of center, which is bonded and features a raised keystone and board doors. Above the cart entry is a Venetian window. To the left of the barn entry is a stable door with a stone lintel, and to the right is a doorway with a plain stone surround at a lower level. The rear of the barn has an opposing cart entry that has been infilled, along with a lean-to addition.

Inside the barn, the house's gable wall on the left contains a two-light double-chamfered mullion window, and the barn features a 19th-century queen post roof with raised purlins. The house has a later barrel-vaulted cellar with a plain stone surround to the window and wooden lintels above the doors. There are raised beams, including one in the left room that has been removed from the central room and has a mortice in the soffit for a former partition. Between the central and right-hand rooms are back-to-back 18th-century fireplaces with plain stone surrounds and cornices, and a similar fireplace is found in the left-hand room. The house has a king-post roof with a central tie-beam that has mortices for former studs, and the left-hand truss has a mortice in the soffit of the tie-beam for a former partition or walling. The visible front wall plate on the first floor may indicate that the house originally had a timber frame or a former cross-wing.