1, 2 and 10, Sowerby Hall

House, now three dwellings. Dated "IH IH 1646", for Isobel and Joshua Houghton. Built of rubble brought to course with a stone slate roof. Two storeys with two gabled bays and a rear range projecting to the right, with a through-passage.

The north front features quoins and a chamfered plinth. A gabled porch stands to the right of centre with a chamfered, shallow-basket-arched doorway, kneelers, coping, finial and an inner doorway in a similar surround. The windows have double-chamfered mullions: the right-hand bay contains a window now of two-lights with a six-light window above, both with hoodmoulds. The left-hand bay has (from right) a window now of two-lights, a cross-window, and a four-light window now of three-lights with transom, the two left-hand lights converted into a deeper sash. A continuous hoodmould with spiral stops runs above these windows, and above them sits a six-light mullion and transom window with a small chamfered light to its right. Between the bays is a hole for a gutter spout. The front has coping and shaped finials. An external stack stands on the left side.

The rear (south front) has a chamfered surround to the through-passage doorway, the lintel dated and bearing a cornice on consoles. To the right are two two-light double-chamfered mullion windows under a continuous hoodmould with carved stop. To the left is a six-light flat-faced mullion window and two tall eight-pane sashes in double-chamfered surrounds (formerly cross-windows) under a dripmould with shield stops. The first floor has three two-light double-chamfered mullion windows flanking a six-light and a two-light flat-faced mullion window. Two gutter spouts are present. The roof is hipped with two stacks at the ends of the ridge and one at the eaves at the right end.

The right return includes traces of two two-light double-chamfered mullion windows under hoodmoulds to the ground floor and a five-light double-chamfered mullion window above. The left return, front range, has a blocked two-light window and two gutter spouts; the rear range has a blocked three-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window to the right of a later door and window, a semicircular hoodmould with head stops to the left on the first floor, and an oculus above.

Interior: In No 2, the south room (housebody) contains a fine fireplace with a deep segmental-arched lintel and moulded, step-stopped surround with cabling in the spandrels. A chamfered, quoined, segmental-arched doorway leads into the bookroom. The north room has chamfered spine beams and a large fireplace with a chamfered quoined surround and sink, with cushioned spandrels. Two moulded doorways lead off the through-passage into what is now No 1.

No 1 has, in its south room, a quoined fireplace with remnants of a moulded lintel, one panelled wall and panelled doors. On the first floor, the south room has a moulded, Tudor-arched fireplace with spandrels bearing circles and the initials "IH IH"; the north room contains a quoined angle fireplace. One good board and muntin door with moulded panels is present. A similar door serves the first floor of No 2, along with two stop-chamfered quoined doorways (one now converted to a window).

Joshua Horton was a Justice of the Peace and friend of Oliver Heywood.