Evesons Farmhouse And Evesons Farm Cottage

SD 73 SE 3/62

SIMONSTONE, SIMONSTONE LANE Eveson's Farmhouse and Eveson's Farm Cottage

(Formerly listed as Evison's Tenement)

17.12.1968

GV II

Farmhouse, late C16 or early C17, altered, now 2 dwellings. Limewashed sandstone rubble with quoins (gables rendered), stone slate roof with a ridge chimney at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays, a large external chimney stack at the left gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with projecting stair turret to 3rd bay, large rear outshut to the left half and smaller lean-to to 3rd bay. Two storeys; original doorway to left of stair turret altered as a 2-light window (a similar inserted window above this), an inserted doorway to the left of this, and another doorway to the right of the stair turret; to the left two 4-light windows with recessed ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and moulded hoodmoulds, at 1st floor above these 2 similar 3-light windows without hoodmoulds, and in the stair turret a matching 2-light window. Left gable has 2-light window with chamfered mullion; right gable has 3 and 2-light windows at ground floor, and at 1st floor a 4-light window with hoodmould. Rear: outshut has 3 other mullioned windows variously altered. Interior: house part in 2nd bay has large inglenook bressumer, the front end housed in a heck-beam, both with cyma-stopped chamfer; similarly chamfered ceiling joists; C18 rectangular stone fireplace with shouldered jambs (head altered); stair turret to 3rd bay contains stone spiral staircase.

Listing NGR: SD7752734154