52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319946
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
- Statutory Address:
- 52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319946
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
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:
- 52 AND 54, TOWN GATE
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 03994 23283
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0223 & SE 0323 (north side), Sowerby 11/278 Nos 52 and 54, Castle Hill 15.11.66 GV II*
House, now 2 dwellings. Dated "INEN 1662". Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with wing to rear left. Chamfered plinth, double- chamfered mullion windows. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre in original doorway with cyma-moulded surround and ogee-shaped head with date panel on lin- tel. To left a board door in plain stone surround with block above lintel having inverted shield with chevrons. Restored 5-light window to bay one and 6-light window to bay 2 (partly restored), both with transoms. Continuous dripmould with lozenge stop to left and heart stop to right. lst floor: each bay has a 3-over-5-light window with decorative-stopped hoodmould. End stacks. Rear: main range: C20 door in plain stone surround to left of 3-light window on each floor. Pent porch in angle with wing has 2-light flat-faced mullion window and small light above. Wing has quoins, kneelers, ashlar coping, end stack and, in left return, a 5-light ground-floor window and 2-light window above. Left return: cross-window under dripmould on left with 2-light window above. Left return: in gable of main range a rafter and the ends of the purlins are inside. Wing has a 5-light window to each floor, the lower one with round-headed lights. Interior: No 54, on left: front room has a large segmental-arched fireplace with stepped arris and skewbacks, and 2 stop-chamfered spine-beams; rear room has a large, quoined, segmental-arched fireplace with skewbacks, stop-chamfered spine-beams, joists, wall plate in right wall; on lst floor a king-post truss between bays and2 with mortices in soffit of the beam for studs from former partition wall; another truss between main range and wing, probably with king-post, with part of an angle strut visible. No 52: triangular-headed fireplace with voussoirs, step- ped surround and chamfered cornice.
Listing NGR: SE0399423283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339410
- 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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