East Nettlepot Farmhouse And Attached Farmbuildings

LUNEDALE B6276, Nettlepot NY 92 SW (South side) 9/119 East Nettlepot Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings GV II Farmhouse and farmbuildings. Dated 1685 on door lintel, major alterations c.1860, restored 1983-5. Squared rubble. Graduated slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. Linear plan: hearth-passage house flanked by attached farmbuildings forming a continuous 2-storey front.

House, of 4 irregular bays, has low plinth, flush quoins and straight joints at junction with farmbuildings. 4-panel door, in narrow moulded stone doorway, in third bay. Doorway lintel inscribed: IDM 1685 (John and Mary Dent). Replaced 4-pane sashes, in mid C19 openings, with flush lintels and sills. Eaves raised c.1860.

Byre and loft, to left, has flush quoins; boarded door with boarded window to right and similar opening above. Barn to right has flush quoins: 2 Dutch doors and a boarded window to left; 3 breathers and 2 openings above; right-end opening has 2-leaf boarded shutters.

Continuous low-pitched roof with coped gables. 2 rebuilt ridge stacks, above house section, with top bands and water tables.

House has low 2-storey rear outshut, with scattered 12-pane sashes, and a semicircular-plan stair turret.

Modernised interior retains large square-headed fireplace in the former parlour. Replaced 2-flight dogleg staircase in stair turret.

Lean-to addition to left return not of special interest. Farmbuildings are included for group value.

Listing NGR: NY9207722250