Sowerby Croft Farmhouse, Nos 1-11 (consec), Sowerby Croft and attached barn

Farmhouse and attached workshop, now cottages, barn and cottages. Dating from the 16th century with major development in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Built in thin coursed rubble and coursed squared stone with stone slate roofs. The buildings form a complex arrangement of a farmhouse with rear wing linking to a parallel workshop range, which projects to the left, with a barn range projecting forward from the centre and a cottage range to the left.

The farmhouse (Sowerby Croft Farmhouse and Nos 1 and 2) is a two-storey, two-bay 17th-century house with the entrance now in the right gable. It has a rear outshut to No 1 and an added wing to the rear left. A bay was added to the left in the late 18th century, and a canted bay with an archway was added to the far left in the 19th century, linking the farmhouse to the barn. Quoins mark the ends. The 17th-century bays have tall double-chamfered mullion windows: on the ground floor of seven lights (with two right lights containing a 19th-century doorway) and five lights to the right of a later two-light window; on the first floor of seven and five lights flanking a small 20th-century window. To the left on each floor is a blocked 18th-century opening with architrave. A continuous ground-floor dripmould runs across (part removed). Chamfered gutter brackets and a shaped kneeler with coping on the right are present. The end stacks are corniced. The added bay (now forming Sowerby Croft Farmhouse as one with No 3) has a plain stone surround doorway on the right of a flat-faced mullion window, now three-light, with a similar six-light window above. Chamfered gutter brackets and a stack to the left end are present. The rear wing (Nos 3 and 11) was raised and subdivided in the early 19th century. No 3 has a doorway to the right of a five-light (now three-light) flat-faced mullion window on each floor, while No 11 (rear) has a gable stack.

The workshop range (Nos 4, 5, 10, 9 and 8) probably dates to the late 18th century and was converted to cottages in the mid-19th century. It comprises two storeys and six cells. On the south-east front, to the right of the barn range are Nos 4 and 5, which have plain stone surrounds to openings, a blocked central first-floor taking-in door, and flat-faced mullion windows with most mullions removed on the ground floor but on the first floor of four-, two-, four- (now two-) and four-lights. Renewed ridge stacks are present, with No 10 masked by the barn range. To the left of the barn range is No 9, now one with No 8, which has a 20th-century porch. On the rear, quoins appear to the right of No 9. The door of No 10 is in a blocked quoined archway. On the first floor of No 4 are two two-light chamfered mullion windows, heightened with mullions removed. Other openings have plain stone surrounds with windows formerly having flat-faced mullions, mostly removed or renewed.

The barn range dates to the 18th century and comprises five bays with quoins. On the east front, from left: a 19th-century doorway; an inserted window; a two-light window; a round-arched cart entry with moulded imposts and raised keystone, blocked and with a later doorway and window; a later doorway and window; and a blocked chamfered doorway. Above the cart entry is a two-light window with rectangular vents to either side, those to the right being chamfered. A shaped kneeler and coping appear to the left. On the right, an inserted bay links the barn to the workshop range and has a segmental carriage arch with a part-blocked arched loading door above. On the rear, from left: an inserted bay, set back, has a blocked archway with a two-light window and, above it, a stepped three-light window. The barn, partly rendered, has a blocked chamfered quoined doorway; a blocked wide chamfered doorway with an inserted window to its left; a tall round-arched cart entry; and an inserted window. The left return has rectangular vents.

The cottage range (Nos 6, 7 and 8) dates to the late 18th century and was altered in the mid-19th century. The west front features quoins and porches dating to circa 1980. Windows have plain stone surrounds and flat-faced mullions, those to No 6 (on the right) being 18th-century and those to Nos 7 and 8 being 19th-century. A shaped kneeler and coping appear to the right.

Interior features in the 17th-century farmhouse include chamfered beams and a moulded central shine beam on top of an inserted spine wall in the right room (No 1), said to mask panelling. In the left room (No 2) is a heavily moulded basket-arched early 18th-century fireplace (restored) and spine beams, with a small fireplace in the room above. In No 1 is an early 18th-century dog-leg stair with panelled dado to the second flight, column-on-vase balusters, and a blocked mullion and transom stair window (backing on to No 3).

This complex of buildings had associations with the cloth industry from at least 1567 and throughout the 18th century.