Sowerby Hall

NY 33 NE CASTLE SOWERBY

8/5 Sowerby Hall 27.12.67

G.V. II

Vicarage now farmhouse. Probably early C17 with extensive alterations dated and inscribed over front entrance J & GS Vicr 1746 (Joseph Sevithwaite and wife). Painted render over mixed sandstone rubble walls. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; banded sandstone gable end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays with right single-storey washhouse. Centre C20 door and fanlight in moulded pilastered surround with imposts and false keystone. Sash windows in painted stone surrounds, that to left of entrance double. Rear has C17 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned staircase window. Washhouse has rear chamfered window with stone mullion removed. Interior of house has beamed ceilings. Inglenook with heck partition; inserted C20 fireplace and left cupboard recess. Panelled doors in hall and on landing. A visitation by Chancellor Waugh c1752 states, "the present vicar has built an neat convenient house and keeps all things about it in good order..."; see Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxxiii, p.181.

Listing NGR: NY3810736059