Stingamires And Attached Outbuilding

BILSDALE MIDCABLE STINGAMIRES SE 59 NE 16/28 Stingamires and attached outbuilding II* Former farmhouse, now private residence. C17 with C18 part rebuilding and modern rehabilitation. 2 builds, and roof of main house raised. Herringbone-tooled sandstone, some more lightly tooled. Pantiled roof with tile ridge, stone copings, kneelers and stacks. Linear plan: former longhouse, now all in domestic use, with hearth-passage opened into downhouse/kitchen. Boarded passage door in chamfered surround. Small fire window to right. Other windows 2-light Yorkshire sashes, those on ground floor in chamfered surrounds, those above in inserted half-dormers. Chimneys at ends and at main hearth. Copings stand proud, showing house was once thatched; curved kneelers. Projecting extended outbuilding at left has boarded door on inner return and garage door in end. Interior: Chamfered rear passage door and old chamfered beam in kitchen. Forehouse has firebeam and another chamfered beam, also original joists. Stone heck and restored settle. C18 inserted fireplace dated 1756 with initials RWI and HCI. Salt box and old cupboard at left. Inserted C19 cast-iron bread oven, by Carter of Kirkby, at right. In parlour chamfered beams and joists and a small chamfered rear window. C18 stone fireplace with pilasters, low-relief elliptical arch above and multi-moulded cornice; inner stone surround carved to imitate bricks. One substantial full cruck truss with blades crossed at apex and trenched for ridge piece (possibly an C18 rearrangement). The cruck partition is timbered, with old cowdung plaster. Remainder of roof renewed. Loose sootstone in main chimney.

Listing NGR: SE5631195752