Thwaite Farmhouse

SEDBERGH

SD69SW HOWGILL LANE, Howgill 162-1/5/370 (West side (off)) Thwaite Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mainly early C18, with one bay which may be earlier; altered. White-painted roughcast on rubble, roof of green slate upper courses and stone slate lower courses, with slobbered rubble chimneys. Single-depth linear plan of 3 elements on north-south axis, the main range of 3 unequal bays, with an earlier bay at the north end and a peat-house built into higher ground at the south end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys 1:3:1 windows. The main range, slightly higher than the ends and almost symmetrical, has a C20 gabled porch offset slightly right, a 12-pane sashed window above this, and 2 square 16-pane sashes on each floor, all these windows with exposed boxes and hornless. Gable chimneys with pitched slate weather courses (and that to the left broader than the other). The earlier bay to the left has a doorway with plain reveal next to the junction, one square window on each floor to the left (a 6-pane tilting casement at ground floor and a 12-pane fixed window above), and a gable chimney. The peat-house to the right has a doorway (to a through passage beside the gable wall of the main range) with C20 door, and a 9-pane window above. Rear: irregular fenestration to the main range (mostly the northern half) including a stairwindow with 2 wooden mullions and 2 horizontal glazing bars making 9 panes, a small 6-pane fixed window below and left of this, both these windows with slate drip-bands, and a very small 4-pane window to the right (perhaps a fire-window); prominent gabled porch to north bay, protecting batten-and-board door. INTERIOR: lateral passage from front door to staircase; quarter-turn staircase with closed string, square newels and turned balusters, and beside this an old panelled door to a pantry under the stairs; former housepart in north bay has covered beam approx. 2 metres from north gable wall, and the room above this (now partitioned axially) has a large "beef-box" approx. 0.5 metre high. Very picturesque and probably ancient site overlooking bend in River Lune ("thwaite" derived from Old Norse, denoting a clearing).

Listing NGR: SD6290094788