Lower Gills Farmhouse

SD 84 SW RIMINGTON

SD 823 447

8/136 Lower Gills Farmhouse 16-11-1954 - II

House, 1698, altered. Rendered rubble with slate roof. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys. The 2 right-hand cells, of one bay each, have windows with double-chamfered surrounds. The left-hand window now has 2 square mullions. The right-hand window, formerly of 4 lights, now has a central mullion remaining and has a hood. On the 1st floor the left-hand one has no mullions: the right-hand one is of 3 lights. The door, between bays, has a plain stone surround and a hood of 2 pitched stone slates. The left-hand cell has one window on the ground floor and 2 on the 1st floor, all with plain reveals. At the left is a door with plain stone surround under a modern glazed porch. Chimneys on left-hand gable and to right of left-hand cell. Part of the rear (north) wall is covered by an outshut, which has a one-light chamfered window on each floor of its west wall. Interior. The east room has a shouldered stone fireplace. Above is a plaster panel with '1698' in raised numbers.

Listing NGR: SD8236144759