Sowood House

SOWOOD HOUSE, COLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1314069
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Sowood House
Statutory Address:
SOWOOD HOUSE, COLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1314069
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Sowood House
Statutory Address 1:
SOWOOD HOUSE, COLEY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOWOOD HOUSE, COLEY ROAD

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 12372 26578

Details

BRIGHOUSE COLEY ROAD SE 12 NW (east side) 1/68 Sowood House (formerly listed as Sowood House Farmhouse under 3.1.67 Hipperholme)

II

House. Mid C17. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, partly rendered, stone slate roof. 4 plan, 2 storeys. Hall and cross-wings with through passage. 4-bay front with doorway with segmental arch and composite jambs. All are double chamfered mullioned windows except 1st bay where they have been altered. The remainder are of 5 lights to ground floor and of 6, 2, 3 and 5 above, each of those in the last bay having lost the outer mullions, but retaining hoodmoulds. Coped gables with kneelers and rainwater spouts. Rear retains original 5-light windows to both floors of left hand wing and similar doorway to through passage. One lateral stack to right hand wing and one other stack to ridge on line of through passage wall and one to gable of main range.

Listing NGR: SE1237226578

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
338816
Legacy System:
LBS

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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