Midge Hall And Adjoining Outbuilding

Midge Hall, also known as Glaisdale Head, is a farmhouse that dates from the late 17th century and was extended and remodeled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It has an attached barn or byre from a similar period. The main house is built of herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone and features a pantiled roof with stone dressings. The barn is constructed from coursed small rubble in the nearer part and roughly-squared rubble further away, with the top five courses made of well-squared tooled stone that appears to be from the 18th century.

The building is two storeys high, with the main house consisting of two bays and a wide added bay from the late 18th century on the left. The barn to the right has five irregular bays. There is a blocked through-passage door immediately to the right of the main house, which has a window inserted; the lintel above is dated 1690 and features the initials WP and WT, suggesting it has been reset. The house has a four-pane door to the right of the late 18th-century extension, with a small casement window above it and two sash windows that have lost their intermediate bars, all set under broad, stepped, keyed, tooled wedge lintels. On the ground floor, the main house has a 16-pane sash window and a three-light Yorkshire sash window, both under heavy lintels, and two 16-pane sash windows above, also with similar lintels and projecting sills.

The barn has a small chamfered fixed light to the right of the passage door, followed by an inserted door and window, and a stable door in a large alternating-block surround on the right. The first floor of the barn features a small inserted light on the left and five vent slits above. The roofs of both buildings have stone copings and curved kneelers, and the house has three stepped and corniced chimneys. The rear elevation of the house has been significantly altered, featuring three wide raking dormers and a pent extension with two modern windows. Other windows on the building vary in style. There is a near-contemporary lean-to, and the through-passage door has a chamfered Tudor arch with initials H.H., which appear to be later than the 17th century. The other openings on the barn are similar to those on the front.

Inside, the entrance hall contains a two-light chamfered stone-mullioned window on the right, indicating the external wall of the original house. The 20th-century extension to the barn is not of interest.