Bare Syke House

Bare Syke House is a house dating to the 1740s, built for Isaac Wilkinson, an ironmaster. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and originally comprised three bays, although the first bay may have been added later. The windows have architraves and were originally sash windows with glazing bars; the window in the third bay of the ground floor has been replaced by an early 20th-century lean-to timber extension with a casement window. Gable-end stacks and a cross-axial stack are present. The right return side has two windows with small-paned fixed glazing accompanied by opening panes. The entrance is covered by a flat slate canopy and features a six-fielded-panel door, two panels of which are glazed, within a moulded frame. The left return side has a 20th-century lean-to outhouse. At the rear, there is a lean-to canopy over the entrance, a wall to the right with a door connecting the house to an outbuilding built against a rock outcrop. Most windows have wooden mullioned frames, chamfered to the interior, with small-paned fixed glazing with associated opening panes; the second and third bays of the ground floor have 20th-century casement windows. The wide-boarded entrance door has battens and strap hinges, and a wooden handle. The outbuilding has a lean-to roof, small-paned fixed glazing in its windows, a small hearth, possibly for a copper, and a shallow sink with a water pump. The interior contains some fielded panelling, with the possibility of more panelling concealed beneath later cladding. The staircase displays square fluted newels, a moulded handrail, and turned balusters. Several two-fielded-panel doors are present with H-hinges.