Crabtreebeck And Stables Adjoining

Crabtreebeck and stables adjoining is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house and stable. It is dated 1660, as inscribed on a stone built into the front wall, and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features whitewashed render over slate walls and a graduated greenslate roof, which has been partly replaced with Welsh slate. It retains original painted roughcast chimney stacks with projecting slate drip stones.

The structure likely began as two houses. The lower part, dating from 1660, is two storeys high with two bays, while the higher left section is from the late 17th century and also has two bays, with a stable beneath a common roof. The oldest section features a plank door within a chamfered painted stone surround, located in a 17th-century stone porch that includes an internal stone seat and a coved recess. The ground floor has large casement windows, likely in their original reveals, with the left window set under a wooden lintel and slate hood. The upper floor has smaller, irregular casement windows in original plain reveals.

The higher portion contains two 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, one window with its mullion removed, and another in an enlarged 19th-century opening. The stable has double plank doors and an additional doorway to the left under a slate hood, along with slit vents. The right return wall of the older section displays three levels of projecting slate drip stones. Inside the older part, there is an inglenook with an arched firebeam and a heck partition, along with beamed ceilings on the ground floor. A semi-circular projecting stone staircase at the rear features slate steps.