Reynard Ings

Reynard Ings is a laithe-house dating from the second quarter of the 18th century. It is constructed of random rubble, rendered and partly pebbledashed at the front, with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and originally functioned as a single-cell cottage with a double-depth layout, where a barn occupied two-thirds of the structure. An extra cell was added to the barn around 1912, and an additional room was added to the rear around 1968.

The house on the left features quoins and a doorway with an added gable hood from around 1950. It has an original horizontal-sliding sash window with 24-paned glazing, and a similar window above on the first floor has been altered to a casement. To the right of the doors, there are windows of similar proportions. The building has a gable stack and another stack.

The barn includes a segmental-arched cart entry with narrow voussoirs and a quoined angle leading to an inner porch with a wooden lintel. Within the re-entrant angle, there is a doorway to the left that leads to a former stable, also featuring a wooden lintel. Above the barn arch, there is a gabled dormer columbarium in stone that replaces an earlier timber structure. At the right end of the barn, there is a mistal doorway with a roughly-dressed lintel. The left return has windows on both floors with large, roughly-dressed monolithic lintels, while the right-hand return wall of the barn has a pitching-hole with tie-stone jambs and several projecting through stones on each gable.

Inside, the house has ogee stop-chamfered spine beams, a fireplace with a projecting chamfered shelf, and a stone-lined bee-hive oven. The rear service room features a simple stop-chamfered beam. The barn has a three-bay layout with an angle-strut truss, where the principals are connected by a collar from which a short king-post supports a diamond-set ridge. The purlins are tenoned through the principals and secured with oak pegs, and there is a har-hung door.