Askew Rigg

Askew Rigg is a farmhouse that also includes a former house and barn, with dates recorded inside as 1649, 1666, and 1667, and alterations made in 1835. The building features painted roughcast walls set on large projecting plinth stones, and has a graduated greenslate roof with 19th-century stone chimney stacks topped with slate cowling. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The former house on the right has five bays, while the barn on the left is under a common roof. The property has 20th-century doors and sash windows framed in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The former house contains small openings on the ground floor and blocked stone-mullioned windows on the upper floor, with small fire windows at the ends. The barn features plank doors in a projecting cart entrance. Inside the house, there is a carved and panelled court cupboard built into the principal room, which is dated and inscribed TB, WB 1667. The ground floor rooms have beamed ceilings, one of which is dated and inscribed TBM, M20 1666 WB. A recess in the room to the right has a lintel dated 1649, and an exposed beam bears the date of 1835, believed by the owner to mark the time of alterations. A 20th-century extension to the front of the barn is not of interest.