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SE 0425
7/71 SOWERBY BRIDGE
GREYSTONES ROAD
(north side) , Luddenden Foot
Greystones Farmhouse and Cottage II Farmhouse now 2 dwellings. Mid C17. Rubble brought to course, rendered to front
and part of rear; stone slate roof. Through-passage plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays with
partial outshut and rear wing. Front: left bay breaks forward. Quoins. Ground
floor (left to right): blocked 3-light chamfered mullion window; glazed door in
plain stone surround; 8-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion;
5-light double-chamfered mullion window to right of plain-stone surround doorway.
Over the 2 right-hand windows a continuous hoodmould with heart stop to left.
1st floor (left to right): 2-light flat-faced mullion window; 3-light chamfered
mullion window, mullions removed; 4- now 2-light chamfered mullion window; 4-light
flat-faced mullion window. External stack with quoins and offsets to right (top
renewed); ridge stacks to right of door and to left. Rear: outshut on left is
under catslide roof and has quoins, a 2-light and a 3-light chamfered mullion
window, all mullions removed, dripstone to latter. Central bay, projecting as
gabled wing, has quoins, gable stack and in right return, a 5-light double-chamfered
mullion window with hollow-moulded dripstone and a 4-light, now 2-light,window
above. To right of wing a board door in plain stone surround with chamfered light
over. Right-hand portion breaks forward and is quoined. Interior: quoined doorway
from through-passage into house with wood lintel. Room in rear wing, divided from
front of house by plank and muntin partition wall, has large chamfered, quoined
fireplace with deep triangular lintel and bread oven on its right, and a stop-
chamfered spine beam. The main house, formerly 2 rooms, now 1, has, in (former)
left room, a large chamfered fireplace with deep lintel and stop-chamfers to beams
and some joists and in (former) right room a chamfered, quoined, arched fireplace
with deep lintel, a stop-chamfered spine beam and joists. On the 1st floor a plank
and muntin rear partition wall runs the length of the house. Straight braces rise
from wall posts to plates and tie beams. King-post trusses with braces to ridge-
piece, right-hand truss with 'V' struts. Listing NGR: SE0433525020
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