Station House With Horsforth Pottery And Barn (Both Attached)

This is a farmhouse with an attached barn and cottage, later adapted as a stationmaster’s house and now used as a house and workshop. The barn dates back to the late 17th century, the main house was built in the early to mid-18th century and was extended in the 19th century, and the cottage was constructed in the mid to late 18th century. The building materials are mostly coursed squared sandstone with some quoins, and the roofs are slate and stone slate.

The barn is built of large coursed rubble with quoins and a stone slate roof, forming a U-plan with three units and a front outshut to the first unit. A recessed porch is in the centre of the barn (a later lean-to addition to the porch is not included in the listing). The barn has a lintel of re-used timbers and double doors with harr-hung batten-and-board.

The cottage, now integrated into the barn, is of coursed squared sandstone with a stone slate roof, two storeys high. It has a doorway to the left and one window on each floor, both being two-light windows with flat-faced mullions and 12-pane sashes. There’s a chimney at the right gable.

The main house, partially overlapped by the cottage, is built of matching sandstone with large quoins at ground and first floor levels. The second floor has 19th-century stonework, and the roof is slate: stone slate covers the first bay, while the higher portion uses Welsh slate. The first bay is two storeys high and has a 16-pane boxed sash window on the ground floor and a three-light flat-faced mullion window above, with a sashed centre and eight panes to each light. The second and third bays are three storeys high, with an added top storey almost as tall as the first two. There are blocked former doorways in each bay (the first altered into a window with a horizontal sliding sash), and a large modern window inserted between them. At the first floor of the three-storey section are three windows (one, two, and two lights respectively), and at the second floor are two matching two-light windows. There is a chimney at the left gable. The sides and rear of the building are less significant, with various 19th-century additions at the rear, including a two-storey wing. A quoined vertical joint marks the junction of the barn and house. An altered rear doorway provides access to the barn. Attached at right angles to the rear of the first bay of the barn is a single-storey wing, possibly a former stable, but of less architectural interest.

Inside the barn are two king post roof trusses, one with curved principals, and both featuring longitudinal bracing to the ridge. The house has at least one stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, although the interior has otherwise been altered or remodelled.

According to local accounts, the first floor of the house was once used as a weaving shop.