Backstone Gill Cottage

DENT

SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/16 (North side) 14/06/84 Backstone Gill Cottage (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Backstone Gill Cottage and Barn)

GV II

Small farmhouse, now house. Probably early C18; slightly enlarged, and altered. Cream-painted random rubble with large quoins, green slate roof (stone slate to outshut). Single-depth 2-unit plan plus a lean-to porch-cum-outhouse added to the centre and right-hand half of the front. 2 storeys and 2 windows. The lean-to porch, covering a doorway offset right of centre, has a doorway in its left side and a small square 4-pane fixed window in the front wall. Left of the porch the ground floor has a small square 2-light casement and a 1-light fire-window to the left of that (both with renewed joinery). The 1st floor has 2 widely-separated small square 2-light casements. The left gable has a large square corbelled chimney. Rear has through-stones, and a small window at 1st floor. Right-hand gable wall has 2 courses of prominent through-stones, a small rubble lean-to outbuilding at ground floor and a small window to the left. INTERIOR: 2 large lateral beams in housepart to left; staircase mounting from rear left corner.

Listing NGR: SD7161887142