Hall Farmhouse

ROSEDALE WEST SIDE DALESIDE ROAD SE 69 NE (west side) 3/74 Hall Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Dated 1716 on lintel; farmhouse raised, and former outbuilding raised, incorporated into house, and extended in early C19; further interior alterations in late C19. Original house for Robert Watson; alterations probably carried out by Thomas Dale. Tooled sandstone with quoins; former outbuilding raised and extended in herringbone-tooled sandstone; pantile roof. Originally 3-cell hearth-passage plan, with later extension and outshut added at rear. 2-storey, 4-window quoined front, with 13-storey, 3-bay front set back to right. Main house has 4-panel door to right of centre, in shallow-arched, chamfered and quoined doorway: lintel inscribed: RW : 1716 I H Left of door 16-pane sashes to both floors and 12-pane sashes at end left; windows over door and to right are 12-pane sashes. All windows are early C19 insertions in finely-tooled raised surrounds. Traces of original quoined mullioned windows to left of door. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End and right-of-centre stacks. Openings to 1½-storey end have herringbone-tooled lintels. Doors at left and right. Beneath the central window opening is a pair of dog kennels with rebated doorways. Coped gable and off-centre stack. Rear: central outshut partly obscures a blocked light in flat-faced surround to the first floor left. To ground floor right a squat 6-pane sash in an original double-chamfered, quoined surround. Above is a second blocked light. Left return: blocked flat-faced mullioned window to gable end. Right return: skewed fire window, with the initials R W scratched into the quoin below. 2 blocked single lights to gable end. Interior: early C19 chimney-piece survives in room to right of the door, with lintel carved with a segmental arch in low relief. Unoccupied at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE6963297620