Temple Farmhouse

SE 08 NW WEST WITTON TEMPLE

8/131 Temple Farmhouse 13/2/67

GV II

Farmhouse, divided into 2. Late C18, possibly older. Rubble, partly rendered, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front: rendered. 3 bays, plus projecting cross-wing of 1 bay to left. Central 6- panel door in ashlar eared architrave with splayed bases, pulvinated frieze and modillioned pediment. 4-pane windows in stone surrounds. Hipped roof to cross-wing. Stacks at ends and between bays 1 and 2 of main range. Rear elevation to left of rear cross-wing: rubble; 6-panel door in deeply- chamfered surround; segmental-arched cellar-hole; very tall landing window with imposts and keystone. To right of rear cross-wing: rubble; on ground floor, 4-pane sash window in ashlar architrave; on first-floor, casement window in ashlar architrave. Left return of rear cross-wing: on ground floor, 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; on first-floor, 4-pane sash window in architrave. External stack, with corniced stack, to end right. Right return of rear cross-wing: 6-panel door and above, tall window, both in same ashlar architrave. At east end, an early C20 lean-to extension having over doorway on ex-situ plaque with worn inscription recorded as "WHOSO THAT COME TO THIS HOUS O LORD DO THEM PROTECT AND WHO DOTH PAS FORTH OF THE SAME JESU THERE WAYE DERECT" with the initials of Peter Atkinson and his wife and the date 1608. Interior: in kitchen, late C18-early C19 tripartite fireplace. VCH i, pp. 286-287; H. Speight Romantic Richmondshire (1897), p. 425; M. Hartley and J. Ingilby, The Yorkshire Dales (1974), p. 214.

Listing NGR: SE0337088975