Abbot Holme House (West) And Attached Stable To West And Barn To East

SEDBERGH

SD69SW ABBOT HOLME 162-1/5/270 Abbot Holme House (west) and attached stable to west and barn to east

GV II

Farmhouse and stable, with attached barn or cart-shed. Probably late C17 or early C18; altered. Roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins, mostly white-washed, graduated slate roof (with 4 courses of stone slate to the stable). East-west axis, facing south, with stable to west and attached barn to east. EXTERIOR: the house has a single-depth 2-unit plan plus a rear outshut to the 1st bay. 2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical: with a square-headed doorway offset left and protected by a simple stone-slab porch, a square 6-pane sash close to the left side of this, a 4-pane sash above each of these openings, and one similar 4-pane sash on each floor some distance to the right. Square chimney at junction with stable to left and overlapping it (indicating that it is either corbelled or extruded); gable chimney to right. (Displacement of the windows to the left of the porch, away from the end which has the square chimney and towards the doorway, suggests that formerly there was a fire-window to the left.) Continued to the left is the stable, which has through-stones, a very small square window at ground floor, and a segmental-headed doorway in the gable wall with rubble voussoirs. Attached to the right-hand end and slightly set back is a 2-bay barn or cart-shed of dry-jointed rubble, which has a shallow segmental-arched wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs. REAR: deep full-height outshut to 1st bay of house, with catslide roof; low lean-to loose-box built in angle with this; and flight of steps in angle with this, leading to loft doorway of stable. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Abbot Holme House (east) (qv) and with Abbot Holme Bridge (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6480490834