Spring Hill And Attached Barn

SOWERBY BRIDGE KENNEL LANE SE 0221 and SE 0321 (south side, off) 17/106 - Spring Hill and attached barn - II Laithehouse. C17. Rubble brought to course, stone slate roofs. House of 2 storeys, 2 wide bays with front and rear outshuts to end bay, barn on right. Quoins, double- chamfered mullion windows. South front: barn has central, quoined, round-arched cart entry with voussoirs and single light above. On right, at lower level, a quoined mistal doorway. On left, a chamfered, quoined doorway to left of 2-light window with 5- (now 3-) light window above. House: right bay has a blocked plain stone surround doorway on right (now with window) and a 5-light window with hoodmould and 4-light window above. Straight joint on left indicates left bay is possibly an addition. It is single-storey and has, on left, a porch with chamfered basket-arched doorway under panel incised 'WMP'. Inside is a plain stone surround doorway. To right of porch is 1742 a 4-light window with truncated hoodmould. In right return of outshut a round-arched light with sunk spandrels. Corniced eaves stack at junction with outshut and at left end to rear of roof pitch. Finial to left gable. Rear: barn has opposing cart entry. To its right is a chamfered light, low down, and a chamfered, quoined doorway with single-chamfered light on right and C20 round-arched light above (this bay now part of house). House: left bay has 2 doorway-like recesses, that on left with stone shelves, and a 4-light window above. On right, outshut has two 2-light windows (mullions removed, one blocked) and a carved hoodmould stop. In left return of out- shut is quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels in moulded oblong surround. Above is a single-light window (C19) with hoodmould. Interior not inspected, but left end of barn has chamfered fireplace, the lintel with incised panel 'IW . Barn roof 1702' partly destroyed by fire at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE0237521979