Spring Hill And Attached Barn

Spring Hill and the attached barn are a 17th-century laithehouse located on Kennel Lane in Sowerby Bridge. The building is constructed of rubble brought to course and features stone slate roofs. The house has two storeys and consists of two wide bays, with front and rear outshuts on the end bay, and the barn situated on the right.

The south front of the barn includes a central, quoined, round-arched cart entry with voussoirs and a single light window above. To the right, there is a quoined mistal doorway at a lower level. On the left side, a chamfered, quoined doorway is positioned next to a 2-light window, with a 5-light window (now reduced to 3 lights) above it. The right bay of the house has a blocked plain stone surround doorway on the right (now with a window) and a 5-light window with a hoodmould, along with a 4-light window above. A straight joint on the left suggests that the left bay may be an addition; it is single-storey and features a porch with a chamfered basket-arched doorway under a panel inscribed 'WMP'. Inside, there is a plain stone surround doorway. To the right of the porch is a 4-light window from 1742, which has a truncated hoodmould. The right return of the outshut has a round-arched light with sunk spandrels. The building has corniced eaves stacks at the junction with the outshut and at the left end of the rear roof pitch, along with a finial on the left gable.

At the rear, the barn has an opposing cart entry. To its right is a low chamfered light and a chamfered, quoined doorway with a single-chamfered light on the right, along with a 20th-century round-arched light above (this bay is now part of the house). The left bay of the house features two doorway-like recesses, one on the left with stone shelves, and a 4-light window above. On the right, the outshut has two 2-light windows (with the mullions removed, one is blocked) and a carved hoodmould stop. In the left return of the outshut is a quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels in a moulded oblong surround, above which is a single-light window from the 19th century with a hoodmould.

The interior has not been inspected, but the left end of the barn contains a chamfered fireplace, with the lintel featuring an incised panel marked 'IW'. The barn roof is dated 1702 but has been partly destroyed by fire at the time of the resurvey.