Upper Snape (And Attached Barn)

A farmhouse with attached barn, dating to the 17th century with later alterations. The house was built in the 17th century and includes a later addition likely from the mid-18th century; the barn itself dates from the middle to late 18th century. The building is constructed from large blocks of coursed squared stone, with a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high, originally with three bays, but now featuring an added bay on the right, from which a three-bay barn projects at a right angle. An outshut is located to the rear left of the house. The front of the house has plain stone surrounds to the doorways in the first two bays. A chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway is on the left of the second bay. Double-chamfered mullion windows are present on the ground floor: five lights in the first bay (now three), four lights in the second (now two), two lights in the third (now one), and a single-chamfered mullion window of four lights (now two). The first floor has single-chamfered mullion windows of four, four, and three lights (now two in each). A ground-floor dripmould runs over the doorway and flanking windows, with initials and dates marking the stops. The left side has a kneeler and ashlar coping, and three ridge stacks, the one on the left featuring a capstone. The rear of the house shows quoins; the outshut has a nine-light window (now five-light), while a two-light window (now one-light) is located beneath the first-floor window in the left bay. The added bay on the far left has two flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, the ground-floor windows blocked, with the left-hand one above lacking a mullion. The barn’s gable end has a plain stone surround to a doorway on the left, and two windows – the left one having a lowered cill, the right an insertion. A round-arched cart-entry with tiestones and a raised keystone is found in the right return, with a two-light window above (the mullion having been removed). Inside the house, the main body features a tall stone fireplace with a chamfered lintel, likely from the 18th century, and stop-chamfered spine beams, scarf-jointed, indicating the former presence of a bressumer and firehood. The parlour has a stone fireplace and two spine beams, one stop-chamfered, supported on stone corbels. The barn has two queen-post roof trusses.