Hard Crag And Adjoining Barn And Outbuilding

This is a 17th-century house with an adjoining barn and outbuilding, built of stone rubble, with the house roughcast and all structures having slate roofs. The house is two storeys high and two bays wide. A three-bay bank barn projects forward to the left, while a two-bay outbuilding is recessed to the right. The windows retain small panes, with dripstones below the ground-floor windows, and a fire window with a flat arch is visible in the first bay. The house has gable-end stacks, with the left stack projecting. The barn has a large entrance doorway, and the outbuilding has an entrance to the first bay and a large opening to the second, though this section has suffered some collapse. The rear of the house features a stair wing under a catslide roof, with an arched entrance to the right. The outbuilding includes a large blocked entrance; the barn has two cow house entrances and windows, as well as a winnowing door, all under flat arches. Inside the house, a cruck truss remains in the upper level. There are stop-chamfered spine beams and joists, one ovolo moulded, another ovolo moulded on one side, with signs of a partition to the soffit. A stud and plaster partition has moulded edges to the studs. The fireplace incorporates a corbelled bressummer, a spice cupboard with a door frame to the left, and a section of plank and muntin partition. The barn contains a bulge in the interior wall, behind the fireplace, which likely indicates the presence of a former oven.