Hawkslyn

AIREBOROUGH MAIN STREET SE 14 SE LS 20 (north side) Hawksworth 4/58 Hawkslyn - GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17, remodelled in C18, altered. Coursed squared sandstone, roof of stone-coloured composition tiles. Two-unit plan with continuous rear outshut under catslide roof, added wing set back at left end. Two storeys. Main range; three 1st floor windows; lst-floor dripmould; doorway offset to left of centre has plain lintel, windows have similar surrounds and mullions: at ground floor a large window each side of the door, perhaps formerly with mullions but now cross-window casements, and at right hand end a single-light window; at 1st floor two 2-light windows and a similar single light at right hand end. Single-bay wing to left has similar windows. Chimneys on principal gables and gable of wing. Right hand return wall has inter alia a former doorway altered as a window, and a very tall doorway to the outshut (said to be entrance for horse); rear of less interest, but has chimney on slope of roof at junction with outshut.

Interior: two C17 chamfered beams in left room, a similar beam in right-hand room with scarf joint suggesting former firehood bressumer; large king-post roof truss with V-struts, and many large taper-marks in the tie-beam; in outshut the lower part of a flight of stone steps which were formerly external access to rear upper room.

History: said to have been coaching inn, the stables having been on the opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: SE1646441843