Upper Gatecroft Farmhouse And Attached Barn

This is a late 16th-century farmhouse with an attached barn, located on Addingham Moorside. A two-story kitchen wing was added in the mid-17th century, and the house was raised to two stories in the late 18th century, with further alterations in the mid-19th century when the barn roof was raised to match the house.

The house is constructed of roughly dressed stone at ground floor level, with smaller, regularly coursed stone above the ground floor windows, and has a stone slate roof. It originally comprised two rooms at the front, with a small service room behind the parlour, and a kitchen wing set at a right angle to the main body of the house. Quoins are present. A double-chamfered mullioned window, originally of four lights, has a 19th-century lintel to the parlour. A four-light double-chamfered mullioned window, missing two mullions, has a hood mould running over the return to the housebody. The first floor has two 19th-century windows, each with a lintel dressed to match the parlour window. A porch, with a cat-slide roof, projects forward from the main range, featuring a doorway with a quoined lintel and a broad, stop-chamfered surround. The inner doorway has a two-piece, depressed Tudor-arched lintel with sunken spandrels and a chamfered surround, above which is a chamfered light with a segmental-arched lintel and spandrels. The barn also projects forward, with a porch rising above the cart entry. Mistall doorways are located to the right, featuring composite jambs. Coped gables with kneelers are present on the house and barn. The rear elevation shows a two-light chamfered mullioned window for the service room, with a break in the stonework where the house was raised. The rear wing has watershot masonry and a 17th-century coped gable with a 19th-century stack. A side wall has a four-light flat-faced mullioned window on each floor, with an inner chamfer. A mid-20th century outshut is present with similar windows.

Inside, a rear door, now enclosed in the outshut, has a broad chamfered surround and a damaged Tudor-arched lintel, possibly indicating it has been moved. This leads into the rear kitchen, featuring broad, chamfered spine beams, one acting as a bressumer. A stone staircase is enclosed within an oak-panelled well. The rear wing contains a fine king-post truss with a stop-chamfered king-post and single angle struts. The housebody has a basket-arched fireplace with a broad chamfered surround, an inner beehive oven, lined with stone, stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists. An upper chamber has a chamfered fireplace. The parlour features a chamfered spine beam resting on a beam over the window. The barn has a softwood roof with fish-bone king-post trusses. An earlier roofline, representing the single-story house, is visible. A blocked doorway, originally connecting the house directly to the barn, places the building within the long-house tradition.