Dale Farmhouse And Outbuildings Attached To Rear

Dale Farmhouse and the attached outbuildings date from the mid-18th century, likely incorporating parts of an earlier house. There is an early 19th-century extension and 20th-century modernisation. The original farmhouse features a front and rear made of tooled sandstone, with squared sandstone sides, vertically tooled dressings, and a timber porch. The 19th-century extension is constructed from tooled grey stone, with concrete pantile roofs and brick stacks.

The house has a central entrance plan, with an outshut, an extension to the right, and an outbuilding at the rear. It is two storeys high with a three-window front and a two-window extension. The main entrance door consists of six raised and fielded panels topped with a fanlight, set in a fluted doorcase with angle paterae and an open-pedimented Doric porch. Above the door is a 16-pane sash window, while the other windows are 20-pane sashes, all featuring long lintels and painted stone sills. The eaves course is cavetto-moulded, and there are coped gables with shaped kneelers at both ends, along with end stacks. The ground floor windows in the extension are tall 20-pane tripartite sashes with keyed replacement lintels, while the first floor has 16-pane sashes with plain lintels.

At the rear, there is a full-height "Gothick" staircase window beneath a keyed round arch with imposts. The outbuilding is a one-storey, two-bay range with a one-bay extension at the left end, featuring three blocked ventilation slits and plank and stable doors in quoined openings. Inside the house, the room to the left of the entrance hall retains a fine moulded bressummer and a plank and muntin partition wall. The doorcase to the extension room is fluted with angle paterae. The interior of the outbuilding has two pairs of curved principal trusses with crossed apexes, collars, and ties. The extension to the outbuilding is not of special interest.