Hollins Farmhouse

SE 69 NE 4/48

FARNDALE EAST DALESIDE ROAD (north-east side) Hollins Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18, with earlier origins; extension of 1824, dated on lintel; later C19 and C20 alteration. By John Foord, probably for himself. Tooled sandstone with corrugated asbestos roof; extensions of herringbone- tooled sandstone with pantile roofs; 2 rebuilt stacks. Probably originally 2-cell, gable-entry plan, with later extensions to left and to rear. Low 2- storey, 2-window front to right, with higher 2-storey, 2-window extension to left. C20 part-glazed and panelled door to extension with inserted roundel in brick surround to left, and further replacement window to end left. Two 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills to first floor. Heavy lintels to ground-floor openings, the door lintel inscribed: I----- Foord ANNO DOMINI 1824 Stones on either side of the door-head carved to represent the heads of a horse and a sheep. To right front, a later inserted board door flanked by C20 replacement windows in partly altered chamfered surrounds. Fire window in double chamfered surround to end left. 2-light, 12-pane horizontal sliding sash to first floor left, and similar 6-pane window to right. Coped gable to left; end and centre left stacks. Interior: in room to right of door the inglenook fireplace with boxed bressumer and heck survives. The fireplace has 2 arches, the left one corbelled out on cavetto and ovolo moulded brackets. Remainder of interior not inspected as house unoccupied at time of resurvey. Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby, Life in the Moorlands of N.E. Yorkshire, 1972. p 97.

Listing NGR: SE6606698406