Townfoot Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings And Cottages

NY 98 NW CORSENSIDE EAST WOODBURN

3/61 Townfoot Farmhouse and attached farm buildings and cottages GV II

House, farmbuildings and cottages. Early C19 with older core. House dressed stone with graduated Lakeland slate roof, Other buildings random rubble with Welsh slate roofs. House on right with farmbuildings round yard to left. House 2 storeys, 3 bays. Plank door and 2 flanking but irregularly-spaced late C19 sashes on ground floor. 3 similar sashes above. Gabled roof with flat coping and 2 stone end and one ridge stacks.

Attached to left 2 single-storey stores. The first has plank door, C20 window and cart doors with wood lintel; the 2nd has segmental arch and ½-slatted window. The wall between them is 4 ft 6 ins thick and has a door with drawbar holes and one jamb which is a Roman altar with inscription and hunting scene, the former bastle-house door. Left of these, forming head of yard is 2-storey byre with granary over. Central door on each floor and flanking ½-slatted windows. Outside stone stair to rear. Gabled roof with flat coping. Left side of yard is 2 cottages of lobby-entry plan with blank wall towards yard. Rear of each cottage has central door and flanking sash windows. Gabled roof with small stone gable stacks. Centre of farmyard has old rubble midden with raised walkway around.

Listing NGR: NY9043386854