Butterworth End Farmhouse And Butterworth End Cottage

Butterworth End Farmhouse, now partly a separate cottage, dates to the mid-17th century with later 17th-century and late 17th- to early 18th-century additions. It is located in Sowerby Bridge, off Butterworth End Lane, and has an L-shaped plan, featuring wings to the rear left and centre. The building is constructed of roughly squared stone and rubble brought to course, with a stone slate roof.

The original farmhouse consists of two left bays, which have been refaced in the 19th century. The front has a central, 1980s porch flanked by three-light, flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, except for the ground-floor right window. A chamfered, basket-arched doorway, originally within a gabled porch, is situated in the third bay, above which is set a 19th-century window and a reset sundial. The fourth bay features a 19th-century doorway alongside a four-light mullioned window above, both with chamfered mullions. Shaped kneelers and a coping detail the left gable. Ridge stacks are positioned between bays one and two, and on the wings.

The rear right wing has a plinth, quoins to the right side, and a lower eaves line. It displays a five-light, double-chamfered mullion window (with two mullions removed) to each floor, set beneath a hood mould. A 19th-century doorway and window are also present. The rear left wing incorporates a 19th-century doorway, and a five-light double-chamfered mullion window to each floor, partially obscured by the porch and featuring a hood mould over the ground-floor window.

The porch has a blind oculus on its first floor, and an entrance in the left return. The left return displays a bricked-up, chamfered quoined doorway with a deep lintel, beneath a blocked oculus and a gabled section with shaped kneelers and coping. Inside the porch is an earlier, chamfered quoined, shallow-Tudor-arched doorway leading to the main range. The left bay of the main range has a blocked two-light mullioned window on the ground floor, and a four-light window above, both chamfered mullioned. The left return reveals watershot stone, and a blocked two-light, chamfered mullion window on the first floor of both the wing and the main range.

The interior of the through-passage has stop-chamfered quoined doorways leading into the housebody. Within the housebody is a heck beam, a large, roll-moulded elliptical-arched fireplace with a pendant over the keystone, and chamfered spine beams. The right bay has a king-post roof truss with angle struts, trenched purlins, rafters, and a square-section ridge-piece, all likely dating to the 17th century. A panel on the housebody chimney breast was formerly marked with numerals reported to read “1656”, although Kendall records a different inscription referencing 1690 and Isaac and Mary Holroyde, who acquired the property in 1666-7.