Shield Hall Bakery And Attached Barn

Shield Hall Bakery and the attached barn is a 17th-century building located on Shield Hall Lane in Sowerby Bridge. The house, which now functions as a bakery, is constructed from coursed squared stone, while the barn is made of coursed rubble, both topped with stone slate roofs. The house is two stories high and has two main rooms, while the barn consists of two bays.

The southeast front of the house has been altered, with a 20th-century extension added that is not of special interest. The only early features that remain are the quoins and a plain stone surround of the doorway. The barn features a quoined cart-entry on the left, which is topped by a long tripartite lintel with a keystone that is shaped. Above this entry, there is an inserted window, and to the right, there is a segmental-arched mistal doorway.

On the rear of the house, the quoins are visible. The ground floor includes a 5-light flat-faced mullion window, which has been reduced to three lights, an inserted window, and a plain stone surround doorway that is obscured by an added brick dairy, which is not of special interest. On the first floor, there is an inserted window with a plain stone surround on the left, and a 9-light chamfered mullion window that has had two mullions removed and three lights blocked. The house features a central ridge stack and a two-story addition from around 1970 on the right, which is not included in the listing.

Inside the house, there are later back-to-back stone fireplaces on the ground floor, featuring chamfered lintels and stop-chamfered spine beams. The tie-beam has mortices for studs in the soffit. The barn contains a single truss with wall posts, one of which has a tie to the wall and braces to the tie-beams and wall plate. There is a short King post block in the apex and doubled principal rafters, which are similar to the roof truss found in the barn at Jack Heys Farmhouse on Styes Lane.