Bank Heads East And Barn

Bank Heads East and barn is a house, cottage, and barn under one roof, dated 1688. It is constructed of rubble with crude quoins and chamfered ashlar dressings around the openings, topped with a stone slate roof. The house features two first-floor windows and a central quoined doorway with the inscription 'RW CP' on the lintel, which is above a weather course and the date 'GW 1688 TW' on the lintel above a boarded door. There is a fire window at the left end, and to the right of the door is a small, square window with a fixed frame and glazing bars. Other windows have been raised in height; the ground floor window on the left has a fixed frame with 16 panes and glazing bars, while the first-floor windows have unequally hung sashes with glazing bars. The right side has a kneeler and an end stack on the left. The former cottage on the left has one bay of windows in brownish sandstone quoined surrounds, likely added recently, featuring a sash with glazing bars on the ground floor and a 20th-century casement on the first floor, along with a 20th-century four-panel door on the left. The rear elevation of the house has projecting through-stones and a narrow turret that formerly contained stairs. The right gable end has a single-light chamfered window on each floor. Inside, there is a contemporary fireplace on the left side and stone stairs at the right end. The barn was added to the left in two stages, with the first section featuring a ground floor boarded door and a first-floor shuttered opening, followed by a cart-shed with double doors.