Upper Butterworth End

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SE 0421 and SE 0521 18/24

SOWERBY BRIDGE BUTTERWORTH END LANE (west side, off) Upper Butterworth End

II Farmhouse now part unoccupied, part caravan site amenities. Mid C17, re-roofed c1960. Coursed squared stone, artificial slate roof. Gable entry. Two storeys, three bays with continuous two storey rear outshut. East (road) front: quoins. Windows are double-chamfered mullioned to ground floor, single-chamfered mullioned above, on ground floor of five-, five- and blocked two- (mullion removed) lights; on first floor of six (one mullion removed), three- and two-lights. No stacks, formerly one to centre of ridge. Rear (outshut): chamfered mullion windows, three of two-lights, one of three-lights, all altered, with two blocked single lights above. Right return: central chamfered doorway with recessed shallow Tudor-arch to lintel; a blocked arched light to first floor of outshut; other openings C20.

Interior: room on left has stop-chamfered spine beams. Central bay has chamfered, quoined, shallow Tudor-arched doorway to outshut. Right bay has blocked quoined doorway to outshut and chamfered arched vent withsunk spandrels. The house is said to have been dated 1663, but date has now gone.

RCHM(E) report (31454).

Listing NGR: SE0532821316