Sowerby Worsted Manufacturing Company Limited, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Sowerby Worsted Manufacturing Company Limited
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339152
OS Grid Reference: SE0690723749
OS Grid Coordinates: 406907, 423749
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7101, -1.8968
Location: Walker Lane, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 2AR
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 2AR
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE CANAL ROAD
SE 0623 - 0723
(west side, off)
13/29
Sowerby Worsted
Manufacturing Company
Ltd
- II
Canal warehouse with stable, now commercial premises. Late C18. Brick
in stretcher bond, coursed squared stone and rubble brought to course, rendered
on all but north sides; stone slate roof. 4 storeys to south side, 3 to
north (canal) side; 2 internal bays; stable 1 storey with loft, 1 bay.
Gabled south front: openings have plain stone surrounds, the windows with
flat-faced mullions. Ground floor: wide cart door to right; 2-light window
on left. lst and 2nd floors: loading door flanked by 2-light windows.
3rd floor: loading door flanked by smaller single-light windows. Later
hoist in apex. Stable set back on left has pent roof. Rear: as front,
but with mullions removed. Right return: three 2nd-floor windows. Interior:
stone flag floor to rear at canal level, otherwise thin floor boards. Slender
iron columns of quatrefoil section on circular bases with pronounced entasis
support large-scantling cross-beams. The Calder and Hebble Navigation was
constructed 1759-64 (Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official
Guide (c1985) p 22).
Listing NGR: SE0690723749
Source: English Heritage
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