Genn House With Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall

Genn House, along with its attached outbuilding and garden wall, is a farmhouse dating from around 1700, originally built for Dr. William Elmhirst, who died in 1715. The house underwent extensive rebuilding in 1964. It is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys with attics and three windows on the first floor.

The house is connected to a small outbuilding on the right by external steps, and the front garden wall includes a dog kennel beneath the mounting steps at the front right corner. The house has large quoins and a central six-panel door set in a quoined surround, topped with a date plaque inscribed '1964'. The outer bays feature sash windows with glazing bars in square-faced surrounds, while there are three similar first-floor sashes in bonded ashlar surrounds. The roof displays shaped kneelers and chamfered gable copings, with renewed stone end stacks that have cornices.

The outbuilding, set back to the right and linked by external stone steps, has a pair of quoined doorways. The right doorway has a curved-soffit lintel, while the other has a truncated lintel and a part-blocked two-light mullioned window to its left. There is a first-floor hatch above the right-hand door. The garden wall includes a later side gate in the right return and an oval entrance to the dog kennel beneath the mounting steps in the front-right angle.

Inside, there is an 18th-century balustraded staircase. The name of the house commemorates John Genn of Ouslethwaite, who married a daughter of John Elmhirst around 1320.