Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Gateway in Grounds of Calderdale Borough Sowerby Bridge Area Office
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339360
OS Grid Reference: SE0556923358
OS Grid Coordinates: 405569, 423358
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7066, -1.9171
Location: Stansfield Court, Sowerby, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 1EE
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 1EE
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE SOWERBY NEW ROAD
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(south side, off)
12/230
Gateway in grounds
of Calderdale Borough
Sowerby Bridge
Area office
- II
Gateway with flanking walls. Early-mid C19. Rubble brought to course.
Gateway with wall continuing for approximately 2 metres to west and for
approximately 5 metres at right angles to south. North (garden) front:
quoined pointed-arched gateway with double gates flanked by slightly projecting
embattled towers square on plan, each with one tall arrow slit. Continuous
ashlar band on plain blocks and similar band at top of towers. Lower band
continues across embattled wall which has flat-coped merlons and is stepped
down to south. On west side of south wall is a blocked quoined doorway.
Listing NGR: SE0556923358
Source: English Heritage
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