Gazebo and Attached Garden Wall at Sowerby Croft
GAZEBO AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AT SOWERBY CROFT, SOWERY CROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134473
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Gazebo and Attached Garden Wall at Sowerby Croft
- Statutory Address:
- GAZEBO AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AT SOWERBY CROFT, SOWERY CROFT LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/01262/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134473
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gazebo and Attached Garden Wall at Sowerby Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAZEBO AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AT SOWERBY CROFT, SOWERY CROFT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GAZEBO AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AT SOWERBY CROFT, SOWERY CROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06225 22956
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY CROFT LANE SE 0622-0722 (west side), Norland 16/218 Gazebo and attached 15.11.66 garden wall at Sowerby Croft (formerly listed as Gazebo at Sowerby Croft) GV II Gazebo and attached wall. Probably mid C18. Coursed squared stone, wall with brick lining in stretcher bond; stone slate roof. Wall around square enclosure with 2-storey l-bay gazebo at north-west corner. Gazebo: quoins; openings have plain stone surrounds. North-east front: window on each floor, lst-floor window taller and with 4-pane sash; shaped gutter brackets; pyramidal roof with finial base. On left, added lean-to covers cantilevered stone stair up to lst-floor doorway in left return. Rear: tall blocked window; one gutter bracket. Right return: window to each floor, 1st-floor window with 4-pane sash; gutter brackets. Interior: an inserted corner fireplace on each floor; lst-floor room has moulded cornice and coved ceiling. The wall has quoins and flat coping; it is approximately 1.5 metres high on west side, 3 metres high on north side, 3.5 metres high and stepped on east (road) side, and rebuilt and 1.5 metres high on south side. It encloses what was formerly used as a tentercroft. Kendall notes that the enclosure was formerly larger, the gazebo being situated approximately in the centre (Kendall, p 155). HP Kendall "Sowerby Croft", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 10 (1913), pp 141-155.
Listing NGR: SE0622522956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339346
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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(1913)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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