Gateway

SOWERBY BRIDGE WILLOW HALL LANE SE 0624 and SE 0724 (south side) 10/305 No 13 (Gateway) - GV II Gatehouse now house. Probably mid - late C17, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, formerly having tall ground floor (shortened by raised road level and converted to contain basement); one bay, with single-storey ½-bay on right heightened. Road (north) front: ½-bay has door. Main bay has round arched gateway, chamfered with moulded voussoirs and imposts, now blocked and with mullion window. Above it a moulded cornice on leaf-decorated corbels, breaking forward at ends and centre and having frieze with carved-face keystone. On first floor a double-chamfered window (formerly of 4 or 5 lights) with one mullion and dripmould with decorative stops. Shaped gutter brackets. Roof hipped, with corner blocks for ball finials (removed) and central, C17, shaped finial. Rear: plinth. Tall round-arched gateway has moulded surround, wave-moulded at base on plinths, and imposts; infilled and now with C20 basement window under 3-light flat-faced mullion window. Cornice over gateway as front. On first floor a 4-light, now 2- light, double-chamfered mullion window with decorative stopped dripmould. Left return: on first floor 2 double-chamfered mullion windows, formerly 4-light, left one blocked, with decorative-stopped hoodmoulds. This was the gatehouse to Willow Hall (demolished) built by Samuel King of King Cross. The cornices over the gateways are similar in style to those above fireplaces of other houses in the area eg that in Nos 43-47 Hollins Lane (qv) dated 1688.

Listing NGR: SE0655024189