York House And Outbuilding Adjoining To West

NZ 70 SW 11/98

GLAISDALE GLAISDALE SIDE York House and outbuilding adjoining to west

GV II

Farmhouse and byre, C17 origins but house part rebuilt in 1780 (dated on keystone). Coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone. Pantiles on downhouse, concrete tiles on main house, with stone copings, kneelers and stacks. Linear plan, with hearth passage; loose-box and stable continuous with kitchen/downhouse. Main house 2 storeys, 2 bays; kitchen 1 wide bay incorporating passage; two further bays of outbuilding to left.

Modern part-glazed through-passage door under keyed lintel. Main house has late C19 sashes in raised tooled-and-margined surrounds. Wide, modern 3-light kitchen window in a blocked garage doorway itself inserted in the original window area; 3-light stone-mullioned window, with small casements, above. To left a boarded door with heavy lintel and alternating-block jambs. Left of this an inserted rebated door and a small window. Pitching door above. Corniced chimneys at ends of main house and left of kitchen. Curved kneelers. Lean-to dairy and storeroom extensions to rear.

Interior: Fire beam and joists with quarter-round moulding in kitchen, and chamfered doorway from passage. In forehouse an C18 fireplace, with side cupboards, and a moulded beam. In right end parlour a multi-moulded beam: survival or reproduction?

R.C.H.M. op.cit. pp.74-76 and passim.

Listing NGR: NZ7473403699