Low Chapel Farmhouse

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SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/106 (North side) Low Chapel Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, now dwelling. Early to mid C18; altered, with added shippon. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble, green slate roof. Transitional one-and-a-half depth 2-unit plan with almost full-width rear outshut built back-to-earth, on east-west axis facing south; lean-to shippon added to west end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 4 windows (the 4th blocked), with a sloping plinth to the west half and a plinth of large boulder stones to the other half, and an interrupted stone slate drip-course over the ground floor. The ground floor has a small gabled porch offset slightly left protecting a square-headed doorway with C20 part-glazed door, two C20 2-light casements to the left and one to the right, and a recent top-hung casement to the right of that; the 1st floor has 3 recent top-hung casements and a blocked window to the right. Gable chimneys. Large lean-to at left end. The rear has a blocked 1-light fire-window at the west end, but otherwise has a deep outshut under a catslide roof, blind except for a doorway in the east end. INTERIOR: thick stone lateral partition wall to right of doorway, inserted partition to left; 2 lateral beams in housepart to left, one axial beam in room to right; stone staircase in outshut, entered from housepart (but now separated from it by the inserted partition). A good example of the transitional one-and-a-half depth plan, rare in this area.

Listing NGR: SD7221486904