Cutlinwith Farmhouse

Cutlinwith Farmhouse

A farmhouse of probable late 17th to early 18th century origin, incorporating a re-sited 17th century doorway. The building was remodelled and extended to the left around the mid 18th century, with further additions in the early and mid 19th centuries and later alterations.

The structure is built of slatestone rubble, partly rendered to the front, with a hipped slate roof featuring ridge tiles and rendered stacks.

The original building appears to have had a 3-room plan, with one room to the right heated by a rear lateral stack, a passage, and two rooms to the left with the inner one also heated by a rear lateral stack. The end room to the left was incorporated into the mid 18th century remodelling, when the house was extended to the left as a double-depth plan house with two rooms to the front and an off-centre entrance to the right. This entrance leads to a lateral passage with a stair hall to the left behind the front room. Service rooms occupy the rear, including a kitchen to the rear right at a higher floor level. A dairy and scullery to the rear left, with the service stair, form a wing to the rear left with a 2-room plan.

The original range to the right is 2 storeys with an asymmetrical 3-window front, an axial stack to the left and a hipped end roof to the right. The ground floor has a 20th century half-glazed door with a 16-pane sash to the left and a 15-pane light to the right. The first floor has 16-pane sashes to the left and centre with splayed stone heads. One bay to the left has triple 12-pane sashes at both ground and first floor levels, which internally forms part of the 18th century remodelling.

The 2-storey block to the left, stepped forward and rendered at the upper level, has an asymmetrical front. The ground floor has a 2-pane sash with splayed stone head to the left and a late 19th century glazed porch to the right with an inner half-glazed door. The first floor has a similar 20-pane sash to the left, an early 19th century 20-pane sash as a stair light, and a 16-pane sash to the right. The right side features a small single-storey rubble lean-to with a 20th century 16-pane sash at first floor. The rear of the early range has an external stack. The left side has been rebuilt in the 20th century to the front with paired 12-pane sashes at first floor; the rear service rooms have a blocked door formerly to the dairy and a 20th century casement, with two 20th century 2-light casements at first floor. The rear of this range has three windows at first floor and two at ground floor with a central door, all 20th century.

Interior features include a front left room in the early range with panelled walls and a 19th century chimneypiece to the rear. A 2-panelled door leads to the entrance passage, and a later 18th century 6-panelled door leads to the principal room of the remodelling to the left. This room retains dado panelling, panelled shutters to the windows and a coved cornice. The remainder of this range was altered in the 20th century, except for a room at first floor to the left which retains a 2-panelled door and a cupboard with a round arch and shaped shelves.

The main front entrance hall, at the front of the lateral passage, contains the re-sited 17th century granite doorway with a rounded arch, roll-moulded with recessed spandrels carved with clustered leaves. A round arch to the left in the passage leads to the stair hall to the front, which has an open-well stair with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail; a 19th century plaster cornice marks the first floor landing.

In the dairy wing, the dairy has a 2-panelled fielded door with left-hand hinges. The inner room in the wing was formerly a larder. At first floor in the wing, both rooms have 2-panelled doors, and the inner side of the wing has a straight service stair.