Cowl House And Outbuildings

A cow house and attached outbuildings, dating to 1745, with early 19th-century extensions and alterations around 1830. The house was originally built for William Garbutt. The house is constructed of hammer-dressed sandstone, with some rubble footings, and extensions of herringbone-tooled sandstone; the outbuildings are of tooled and squared sandstone. All have pantile roofs. Originally a central-entry plan, the house was later extended to the left to connect with a detached barn. A range of loose boxes and stables was added to the right.

The two-storey, three-window house front is accompanied by a two-storey, single-window extension to the left. Further to the left, on rising ground, is a one-and-a-half-storey barn, and to the right a one-and-a-half-storey range. The house has a renewed four-panel door with a divided overlight in chamfered openings with flush quoins, and a chamfered lintel inscribed "WG:1745" above. Windows are large-pane horizontal sliding sashes with stone sills; three-light on the ground floor and two-light on the first floor. A blocked fire window is visible at the end to the left. The jambs of the ground-floor openings show traces of chevron tooling, while the window lintels are vertically-tooled replacements. The extension has two board doors and a large-pane horizontal sliding sash window with a stone sill in the centre, with a matching window above. Tooled wedge lintels are over the ground-floor openings; some earlier diagonally-tooled lintels were reused in the masonry to the left. A coped gable and shaped kneeler are present on the right. End stacks are located on the house and a central stack on the extension, all with coved caps.

The barn has a board door with a roughly tooled lintel, flanked by ventilation slits, and a pitching hole at the first floor level on the right. It has a coped gable and kneeler to the left. The range to the right has three doorways, one blocked by a six-pane pivoting window, one with a replacement stable door, all with roughly-tooled lintels, and a square pitching hole with a shutter on the right.

Inside the house, a ground-floor room to the left features chamfered beam and joists, with the beam having run-out stops. A stone chimney-piece with plain jambs, coved imposts, a flat lintel, and a fine moulded dentilled timber shelf is also present. The first-floor room of the extension has fireplaces with a plain stone surround and shelf, and a round-arch basket grate. The interior of the barn retains one upper cruck truss with a crossed apex, located to the left of the door.