The Tithe Barn

SIMONBURN THE GREEN NY 8773 (West side, off) 19/150 The Tithe Barn GV II

Probably a former tithe barn incorporating ground-floor byre; now house. Early-mid C18 with C19 alterations, possibly incorporating earlier masonry; converted into a house c.1960. Squared rubble and dressings; graduated stone- flagged roof; stone chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Tooled quoins. Entrance front: 3 segmental arches with roughly-squared voussoirs on square-plan piers; renewed casements and door inserted into partly-infilled archways; external stone stair at left leads to first-floor boarded door under segmental relieving arch; 2 rows of breathers above. Steeply-pitched roof has raised verges with reverse-stepped gables. Corniced right end stack; rebuilt left end stack. 3 casements in C20 openings set high in right return. Breathers and C20 oriel (in front of doorway with alternating jambs) on left return. First-floor loading bay on rear. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NY8705673659