Aysgarth Dixon's Stores

Dixon's Stores and Aysgarth is a house and shop that dates from the 16th century or early 17th century, with later alterations. The building features a timber frame, with the ground floor constructed of chequered red and grey brick, while the first floor is hung with banded plain and fishscale tiles. The right gable end of the ground floor is weatherboarded, and the first floor is tile-hung. It has a plain tile roof and consists of approximately three timber-framed bays, standing two storeys high with a garret and cellar. There is an underbuilt jetty at least at the left end of the front elevation, and the building has a gabled shape. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three 3-light leaded casements. There is a ribbed door to Aysgarth located to the left of centre and a half-glazed door to the right of centre, each accessed by three steps and sheltered by a continuous plain-tile pentice. To the left, there is a rear wing, likely from the 17th century, with a ground floor of red brick and a first floor that is tile-hung, having a roof with a lower ridge towards the rear end and hipped at the back. A rear lean-to extends from the main range. The interior has only been partially inspected, revealing moulded cross and axial beams, hollow-chamfered joists, and evidence of a jetty in the left end room, with exposed joists in the right and the rear wing.