The Old Farmhouse C50 Yards East Of Coldtown Farmhouse

NY 88 NE CORSENSIDE COLDTOWN

2/56 The Old Farmhouse c50 yards east of Coldtown Farmhouse II

Bastle house, now agricultural store. Late C16/early C17; alterations to doors and windows C19; single-storey addition to rear and lean-to shed on left return C18 or C19. Random rubble with massive quoins and boulder plinth. Welsh slate roof. 34 ft x 21 ft. 2 storeys. Walls 4½ ft thick. Probably C18 doorway to left with one C18 window to right. 2 similar windows above. Original ground floor doorway, now blocked, in shed on left return, has roll-moulded surround. Entrance to upper floor is by door at 1st floor level to rear. Gabled roof, the upper part of gable rebuilt. Interior: ground floor has remains of corbelling for fireplace above. 1st floor has fireplaces both ends; to left, very small and narrow, with rough stone lintel and jambs; to right, blocked large C18 fireplace has older wooden bressumer above. Square recess to left of fireplace. Windows and door have old wood lintels.

Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, McDowall, Mercer. HMSO 1970.

Listing NGR: NY8913788464