Jaunie Wife House And Attached Barn To North West

A 17th-century house with an attached barn, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed of Lakeland rubble stone, rendered to the front and gable end, with a Westmorland slate roof laid in diminishing courses. The roof has a large mid-roof chimney and a smaller chimney to the east gable. The linear building is aligned north-west to south-east, with the original house forming the central section and a former outbuilding now incorporated as a house extension.

The south-west front elevation has two storeys and five bays for the house, a single-storeyed one-bay outshut to the south-east, and a two-bay stepped outbuilding at the north-west end. A doorway is on the left-hand end of the house, with a part-glazed door. To the right, there are three 3-light windows, the rightmost inserted into an earlier fire window opening. Above are two first-floor windows. Further to the right is the former outbuilding, with a flight of stone steps leading to a first-floor doorway and a 3-light window. All window frames are wooden mullion and transom, except for the one in the former fire window opening. Slate drips are present on all openings except the first-floor windows on the house. The barn at the north-west end has stepped outshuts; the lower one contains a 20th-century garage door, and the upper one has a narrow doorway in the north-west side wall.

Inside the original house, a slate-paved passage leads to a rear stair outshut. The main room to the right has a substantial hearth with a massive lintel slab, beneath stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A heck post and shallow baffle screen are on the left side. A stone spiral stair is at the end of the passage.

The house originated as a simple two-bay structure with a barn attached at the upper end and a granary at the lower end. It represents a well-detailed example of the region's vernacular building traditions, where the phased evolution of the complex is clearly visible, and substantial elements of the original plan form are retained in the remodelled interior.